# call (communication)

to send information to a person that the person receives

- Computed level: L9 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: communication  ·  Arena: EmergenceLexicon

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [send](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-send.communication), [receive](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-receive.communication), [people](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-people.social), [information](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-information.knowledge)

**Through:** the sender transmits information, which moves through a channel, enabling the receiver to obtain it, thus realizing a joint communicative act between socially connected individuals

**Novel properties:**
- bidirectional information exchange
- coordinated sender-receiver roles
- shared contextual understanding

## Examples
- In 2023, the James Webb Space Telescope transmitted 107 terabytes of observational data to Earth receivers. *(astronomy)*
- During the 2020 lockdowns, WhatsApp saw 100 million new daily active users sending personal messages. *(computing)*
- The 1963 March on Washington included radio call-ins from 250,000 attendees coordinating arrival times. *(institutions)*

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*Canonical: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-call.communication*  
*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-call.communication.json*  
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