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Media

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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, all means of mass information and 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

Places

United States

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

See also

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