Media may refer to:

Communication

Media (communication) In mass communication, media are the communication outlets or tools used to store and deliver information or data. The term refers to components of the mass media communications industry, such as print media, publishing, the news media, photograp ...

, tools used to deliver information or data **

Advertising media Advertising is the practice and techniques employed to bring attention to a product or service. Advertising aims to put a product or service in the spotlight in hopes of drawing it attention from consumers. It is typically used to promote a ...

, various media, content, buying and placement for advertising ** Broadcast media, communications delivered over mass electronic communication networks **

Digital media Digital media is any communication media that operate in conjunction with various encoded machine-readable data formats. Digital media can be created, viewed, distributed, modified, listened to, and preserved on a digital electronics device. ' ...

, electronic media used to store, transmit, and receive digitized information ** Electronic media, 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-interac ...

, 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 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, devices used to store information ** Social media, 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 those ...

, 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 controls, media control icons known from physical devices such as tape record ...

, 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''. Differen ...

, 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, storm ...

, 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 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 i ...

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 to th ...

* 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 * 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