Media

Media may refer to:

Physical means

Communication

• Media (communication), tools used to 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, technologies that reach a large audience via mass communication
  • MEDIA Programme, a European Union initiative to support the European audiovisual sector
  • Multimedia, communications that incorporate multiple forms of information content and processing
  • New media, the combination of traditional media and computer and communications technology
  • News media, mass media focused on communicating news
  • 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

Computing

• Media player (software), for playing audio and video
• Storage media, in data storage devices

Fine art

• List of art media, materials and techniques used by an artist to produce a work of art

Life sciences

See also: Medium (disambiguation) § Natural science

• Media, a group of insect wing veins in the Comstock-Needham system
• 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

Places

United States

• Media, Illinois
• Media, Kansas
• Media, Pennsylvania

Elsewhere

• Media (castra), a fort in the Roman province of Dacia
• Media (region), a region of and former empire based in north-western Iran, best known for having been the political and cultural base of the Medes and other ancient Iranian people
• Media, Africa, an Ancient city and former bishopric, now a Latin Catholic titular see in Algeria

Arts, entertainment, and media

• Media (album), the 1998 album by The Faint
• Media, a 2017 American TV thriller film directed by Craig Ross Jr.

Transport

• Media (automobile company)
• Ships:
  • Media (AK-83), a (never commissioned) World War II US Navy
  • RMS Media, a Cunard Line cargo liner, in service 1948–61

See also

• Kaus Media, a star system in the constellation Sagittarius
• Medea (disambiguation)
• Media ecology
• Media meshing
• Media psychology
• Media studies
• Medium (disambiguation)
• Midea (disambiguation)
• Multimedia learning
• Common Sense Media, a game/movie/book review site