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The article was one of the founding works of the field of information theory.

Shannon expanded the ideas of this article in a 1949 book with Warren Weaver titled The Mathematical Theory of Communication ( ISBN 0-252-72546-8 ).

The book was released as a paperback in 1963 ( ISBN 0-252-72548-4 ).

The article was divided up into 3 levels of communication problems.

These problems were: 1 ) technical, 2 ) semantic, and 3 ) influential.

First the book briefly explains how the symbols of communication are transmitted, then how the transmitted symbols convey meaning, and lastly the effect of the received meaning.

Shannon's article laid out the basic elements of communication: