We should replace the Overton window metaphor with a gravity assist metaphor.
Overton window = passive tv audience waiting for issues to enter a window
Gravity assist window = while an issue has media attention, it’s trajectory will bend
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The Overton window implies awareness, literacy, and interested stake, but not actual agency. Once media got social, it could bend discourses in ways that were simply not possible in trad media era.
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