Media may refer to:

Communication

* Media (communication), tools used to deliver information or data ** Advertising media, various media, content, buying and placement for advertising **

Broadcast media Broadcasting is the distribution of audio or video content to a dispersed audience via any electronic mass communications medium, but typically one using the electromagnetic spectrum (radio waves), in a one-to-many model. Broadcasting began ...

, communications delivered over mass electronic communication networks ** Digital media, electronic media used to store, transmit, and receive digitized information **

Electronic media Electronic media are media that use electronics or electromechanical means for the audience to access the content. This is in contrast to static media (mainly print media), which today are most often created digitally, but do not requir ...

, communications delivered via electronic or electromechanical energy **

Hypermedia Hypermedia, an extension of the term hypertext, is a nonlinear medium of information that includes graphics, audio, video, plain text and hyperlinks. This designation contrasts with the broader term ''multimedia'', which may include non-interact ...

, media with hyperlinks **

Interactive media Interactive media normally refers to products and services on digital computer-based systems which respond to the user's actions by presenting content such as text, moving image, animation, video and audio. Since its early conception, variou ...

, media that is interactive **

Mass media Mass media refers to a diverse array of media technologies that reach a large audience via mass communication. The technologies through which this communication takes place include a variety of outlets. Broadcast media transmit informatio ...

, technologies that reach a large audience via mass communication ** MEDIA Programme, a European Union initiative to support the European audiovisual sector **

Multimedia Multimedia is a form of communication that uses a combination of different content forms such as text, audio, images, animations, or video into a single interactive presentation, in contrast to tradi ...

, communications that incorporate multiple forms of information content and processing **

New media New media describes communication technologies that enable or enhance interaction between users as well as interaction between users and content. In the middle of the 1990s, the phrase "new media" became widely used as part of a sales pitch for ...

, the combination of traditional media and computer and communications technology **

News media The news media or news industry are forms of mass media that focus on delivering news to the general public or a target public. These include news agencies, print media (newspapers, news magazines), broadcast news (radio and television), an ...

, mass media focused on communicating news **

Print media Mass media refers to a diverse array of media technologies that reach a large audience via mass communication. The technologies through which this communication takes place include a variety of outlets. Broadcast media transmit information ...

, communications delivered via paper or canvas **

Published media Publishing is the activity of making information, literature, music, software and other content available to the public for sale or for free. Traditionally, the term refers to the creation and distribution of printed works, such as books, newsp ...

, any media made available to the public **

Recording medium Data storage is the recording (storing) of information (data) in a storage medium. Handwriting, phonographic recording, magnetic tape, and optical discs are all examples of storage media. Biological molecules such as RNA and DNA are cons ...

, devices used to store information **

Social media Social media are interactive media technologies that facilitate the creation and sharing of information, ideas, interests, and other forms of expression through virtual communities and networks. While challenges to the definition of ''social me ...

, media disseminated through social interactions

Arts, entertainment, and media

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

List of art media Arts media is the material and tools used by an artist, composer or designer to create a work of art, for example, "pen and ink" where the pen is the tool and the ink is the material. Here is a list of types of art and the media used within tho ...

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

Computing

Media player (software) Media player software is a type of application software for playing multimedia computer files like audio and video files. Media players commonly display standard media control icons known from physical devices such as tape recorders and CD pla ...

, for playing audio and video * Storage media, in data storage devices

Life sciences

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

Growth medium A growth medium or culture medium is a solid, liquid, or semi-solid designed to support the growth of a population of microorganisms or cells via the process of cell proliferation or small plants like the moss '' Physcomitrella patens''. Differ ...

, objects in which microorganisms or cells can experience growth *

Media filter A media filter is a type of filter that uses a bed of sand, peat, shredded tires, foam, crushed glass, geo-textile fabric, anthracite, crushed granite or other material to filter water for drinking, swimming pools, aquaculture, irrigation, st ...

, a filter consisting of several different filter materials * ''

Tunica media The tunica media (New Latin "middle coat"), or media for short, is the middle tunica (layer) of an artery An artery (plural arteries) () is a blood vessel in humans and most animals that takes blood away from the heart to one or more parts o ...

'', the middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel

Places

United States

Media, Illinois Media is a village in Henderson County, Illinois, United States. The population was 107 at the 2010 census, down from 130 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Burlington, IA–IL Micropolitan Statistical Area. Geography Media is located ...

Media, Kansas Media is a ghost town in Douglas County, Kansas Kansas () is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its capital is Topeka, and its largest city is Wichita. Kansas is a landlocked state bordered by Nebraska to the north; Missouri t ...

Media, Pennsylvania Media is a borough in and the county seat of Delaware County, Pennsylvania. It is located about west of Philadelphia, the sixth most populous city in the nation with 1.6 million residents as 2020. It is part of the Delaware Valley metropolita ...

Elsewhere

* Media (castra), a fort in the Roman province of Dacia * Media (region), a region of and former empire based in north-western Iran * Media, Africa, an Ancient city and former bishopric, now a Latin Catholic titular see in Algeria

Transport

* Media (automobile company) * , a World War II US Navy ship that was never commissioned * , a Cunard Line cargo liner in service 1948–61