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We begin with an example from everyday life, which will serve as a vehicle for an informal introduction to the main concepts of media theory. Several other examples follow, chosen for the sake of diversity, after which we briefly review some standard mathematical concepts and notation. The chapter ends with a short historical notice and the related bibliography. Our purpose here is to motivate the developments and to build up the reader’s intuition, in preparation for the more technical material to follow.
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(2008). Examples and Preliminaries. In: Media Theory. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71697-6_1
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