News ‘cycle’ is now several distinct waves as something crests on different media. The usual execution order is: subcultural slacks —> subreddits/chans —> Twitter —> Facebook —> new media —> Instagram —> celeb gossip —> old media —> FB —> TV —> paper news —> retiree email lists
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Does this map events to the tech adoption curve?
1) microcultures seek novelty and advantage from discontinuities
2) edgy mainstream legitimizes
3) center mainstream overfits to continuous narratives
4) laggards are forced to acknowledge a couple new things eventually
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Possibly. Though this seems like a superset since it a;plies beyond adoption to attitudes and beliefs.

