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Who Are You? Why Are You Here? Can I Help You Achieve Your Goals?

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In the previous paragraph, I mentioned my students. It is thanks to them and for them that this book was written.

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    McLuhan and Fiore (1968), pp. 26–29.

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    For an interesting list of obviously incompatible definitions see Schement (1993), pp. 20–30.

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Bar-Am, N. (2016). Who Are You? Why Are You Here? Can I Help You Achieve Your Goals?. In: In Search of a Simple Introduction to Communication. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25625-2_2

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