Media

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Media may refer to:

Communications

• Media (communication), tools used to store and deliver information or data
  • Advertising media, various media, content, buying and placement for advertising
  • Broadcast media, communications delivered over mass electronic communication networks
  • Digital media, electronic media used to store, transmit, and receive digitized information
  • Electronic media, communications delivered via electronic or electromechanical energy
  • Hypermedia, media with hyperlinks
  • Interactive media, media that is interactive
  • Mass media, all means of mass information and communication
  • Multimedia, communications that incorporate multiple forms of information content and processing
  • New media, a broad term encompassing the amalgamation of traditional media with the interactive power of computer and communications technology
  • News media, mass media focused on communicating news
  • News media (United States), the news media of the United States of America
  • Print media, communications delivered via paper or canvas
  • Published media, any media made available to the public
  • Recording medium, devices used to store information
  • Social media, media disseminated through social interactions
  • MEDIA Programme, a European Union initiative to support the European audiovisual sector

Computing

• Media (computer), used in computer data storage devices
• Media player (application software), a piece of software designed to play audio and videos

Fine art

• Media (arts), or medium, materials and techniques used by an artist to produce a work

Life sciences

• Growth medium, objects in which microorganisms or cells can experience growth
• Media filter, a filter consisting of several different filter materials
• Tunica media, the middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel
• A group of insect wing veins in the Comstock-Needham system

Locations

• Media (region) a region of north-western Iran, best known for having been the political and cultural base of the Medes, and other ancient Iranian people
• Media, Illinois
• Media, Kansas
• Media, Pennsylvania

Music

• Media (album), the 1998 album by The Faint

Ships

• RMS Media, a Cunard Line cargo liner in service 1948-61

See also

• Media ecology
• Media meshing
• Media psychology
• Media studies
• Medea (disambiguation)
• Medium (disambiguation)
• Multimedia learning
• Kaus Media, a star system in the constellation Sagittarius