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Information Cycles

Timeline

A news event (like the attack on the World Trade Center in New York in 2001) makes visible the production of information related to it. But that information is part of a continuum that actually begins before the event takes place, is sometimes visible to the public and sometimes not, and may never end, just slow down over time.

Play the movie below to see a general information cycle timeline for current events.

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