A Note About This Edition

Understanding Media and Culture: An Introduction to Mass Communication is adapted from a work produced and distributed under a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-SA) in 2016 that adapted a 2010 textbook. Both publishers of the previous editions requested that they not receive attribution, a practice that continues in this edition. This adaptation has altered and updated the 2016 text, which is available in full in the appendix for historical posterity and comparison and was originally produced by the University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing through the eLearning Support Initiative.

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