{
  "id": "media.communication",
  "term": "media",
  "sense": "communication",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 10,
  "arena": "lexicon",
  "domain": "communication",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a way that information can be received by many people through technology",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "information.knowledge",
      "technology.tool",
      "people.social",
      "receive.communication",
      "way.method"
    ],
    "interaction": "information and technology work together so many people can receive it",
    "novel_properties": [
      "widespread information access",
      "technologically mediated delivery",
      "collective reception"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The BBC broadcast the 1969 moon landing to an estimated 650 million viewers worldwide via satellite and television.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "Twitter delivered real-time updates during the 2011 Japanese tsunami, reaching millions with emergency information and user-generated reports.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "The printing press enabled mass distribution of the Gutenberg Bible in 1455, making written knowledge widely accessible for the first time.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "system.organized",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "information.knowledge",
      "note": "medium-for",
      "type": "medium-for"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "advertising.commercial"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "media"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "factual",
      "note": "missing constitutive concepts (people.social, receive.communication, way.method) added to components as they are essential to the definition"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-media.communication"
}