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Communication

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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 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 w ...
, 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 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 require el ...
, 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 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, various fo ...
, 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 information ...
, technologies that reach a large audience via mass communication **
MEDIA Programme The MEDIA sub-programme of Creative Europe or simply Creative Europe MEDIA (formerly The MEDIA Programme of the European Union) is designed to support the European film and audiovisual industries. Budget The goal of programmers is to increase the ...
, 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 tradition ...
, 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), and th ...
, 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 e ...
, 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 consid ...
, 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 medi ...
, 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. Craig Valentine Ross, Jr. is an American film/television director, editor, producer and screenwriter. Career Ross was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He then moved with his father to the San Francisco Bay area at an early age. After graduating h ...
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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

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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 ...
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Storage media 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 consi ...
, 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 ...
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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 ...
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Tunica media The tunica media (New Latin "middle coat"), or media for short, is the middle tunica (layer) of an artery or vein. It lies between the tunica intima on the inside and the tunica externa on the outside. Artery Tunica media is made up of smooth m ...
'', the middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel


Places


United States

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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 ...
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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 ...
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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

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Media (castra) Media was a castra, fort in the Roman province of Dacia. See also *List of castra#Dacia, List of castra External linksRoman castra from Romania – Google MapsEarth
Roman legionary fortresses in Romania Ancient history of Transylvania Media ...
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Media (region) Media ( peo, 𐎶𐎠𐎭, Māda, Middle Persian: ''Mād'') is a region of north-western Iran, best known for having been the political and cultural base of the Medes. During the Achaemenid period, it comprised present-day Azerbaijan, Iranian Kurd ...
, a region of and former empire based in north-western Iran *
Media, Africa Media was an ancient city and former bishopric in Roman North Africa, now a Latin Catholic titular see in Algeria. History Media was important enough in the Roman province of Mauretania Caesariensis, in the papal sway, to become one of the many ...
, an Ancient city and former bishopric, now a Latin Catholic titular see in Algeria


Transport

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Media (automobile company) Media was an American electric automobile built in 1899 and 1900 in Media, Pennsylvania. History Media Carriage Works, established in 1895 built to order an electric runabout on 1899. The company decided to enter series production and made ar ...
* , a World War II US Navy ship that was never commissioned * , a Cunard Line cargo liner in service 1948–61


See also

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Medium (disambiguation) Medium may refer to: Science and technology Aviation *Medium bomber, a class of war plane * Tecma Medium, a French hang glider design Communication * Media (communication), tools used to store and deliver information or data * Medium o ...
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Medea (disambiguation) Medea is a figure in Greek mythology. Medea may also refer to: Film and television * ''Medea'' (1959 film), a film of Dame Judith Anderson's Stage Play * ''Medea'' (1969 film), a film by Pier Paolo Pasolini * ''Medea'' (1988 film), a film by L ...
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Midea (disambiguation) Midea may refer to: * Midea Group (美的集团), a Chinese electrical appliance manufacturer * Midea, Greece, a Greek town * Midea (Argolid), a citadel in the town of the same name * Midea or Mideia, name of four figures in Greek mythology * ''Mi ...
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