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 wi ...

, 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 require el ...

, communications delivered via electronic or electromechanical energy ** Hypermedia, 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 f ...

, 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 informati ...

, 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 tradit ...

, 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, 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 informatio ...

, communications delivered via paper or canvas ** Published media, 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 con ...

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

Computing

* Media player (software), for playing audio and video *

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, objects in which microorganisms or cells can experience growth * Media filter, 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 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 ...

'', 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) 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 Kur ...

, 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