Media may refer to:

Communication

* Means of communication, tools and channels 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 present a product or service in terms of utility, advantages, and qualities of interest to consumers. It is typically used ...

, various media, content, buying and placement for advertising **

Interactive media Interactive media refers to digital experiences that dynamically respond to user input, delivering content such as Text (literary theory), text, images, animations, video, Sound, audio, and even Artificial intelligence, AI-driven interactions. O ...

, media that is interactive ** Media adequacy, specific aspects important for a successful transfer of information **

MEDIA sub-programme of Creative Europe 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. Administration MEDIA is an abbreviation from Fre ...

, a European Union initiative to support the European audiovisual sector ** New media, the combination of traditional media and information and communications technology **

Print media Mass media include the diverse arrays of media that reach a large audience via mass communication. Broadcast media transmit information electronically via media such as films, radio, recorded music, or television. Digital media comprises b ...

, communications delivered via paper or canvas **

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 *

Mass media Mass media include the diverse arrays of media that reach a large audience via mass communication. Broadcast media transmit information electronically via media such as films, radio, recorded music, or television. Digital media comprises b ...

, the institutions and methods of reaching a large audience **

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

, communications delivered over mass electronic communication networks **

News media The news media or news industry are forms of mass media that focus on delivering news to the general public. These include News agency, news agencies, newspapers, news magazines, News broadcasting, news channels etc. History Some of the fir ...

, mass media focused on communicating news **

Published media Publishing is the activities of making information, literature, music, software, and other content, physical or digital, available to the public for sale or free of charge. Traditionally, the term publishing refers to the creation and distribu ...

, any media made available to the public *

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 ele ...

, communications delivered via electronic or electromechanical means **

Digital media In mass communication, digital media is any media (communication), communication media that operates in conjunction with various encoded machine-readable data formats. Digital content can be created, viewed, distributed, modified, listened to, an ...

, digitized representations of information such as audio, video, images and text ***

Hypermedia Hypermedia, an extension of 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-interactive linear ...

, media with hyperlinks ***

Multimedia Multimedia is a form of communication that uses a combination of different content forms, such as Text (literary theory), writing, Sound, audio, images, animations, or video, into a single presentation. T ...

, communications that incorporate multiple forms of information content and processing (e.g., images, video, audio, and text) **

Social media Social media are interactive technologies that facilitate the Content creation, creation, information exchange, sharing and news aggregator, aggregation of Content (media), content (such as ideas, interests, and other forms of expression) amongs ...

, internet-based ways of communicating with a social network

Places

Media (region) Media (, Middle Persian: ''Mād'') is an Iron Age 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 Iranian Azerbaijan, Iranian Kurdistan ...

, a region of northwestern Iran *

Median kingdom Media (Old Persian: ''Māda''; Ancient Greek, Greek: ''Mēdía''; Akkadian language, Akkadian: ''wikt:𐎶𐎠𐎭#Descendants, Mādāya'') was a political entity centered in Ecbatana that existed from the 7th century BCE until the mid-6th cen ...

, a kingdom and empire controlled by and extending beyond the region *

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 man ...

, an Ancient city and former bishopric, now a Latin Catholic titular see in Algeria *

Media (castra) Media was a fort in the Roman province of Dacia. See also * List of castra External linksRoman castra from Romania – Google MapsEarth Roman auxiliary forts in Romania Ancient history of Transylvania Mediaș {{Dacia-stub ...

, a fort in the Roman province of Dacia

United States

Media, Illinois Media is a village in Henderson County, Illinois, United States. The population was 121 at the 2020 census, up from 107 at the 2010 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 landlocked U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Nebraska to the north; Missouri to the east; Oklahoma to t ...

Media, Pennsylvania Media is a borough (Pennsylvania), borough in and the county seat of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located about west of Philadelphia. It is part of the Delaware Valley, also known as the Philadelphia metropolitan area. ...

Media Township, Henderson County, Illinois Media Township is one of eleven townships in Henderson County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2020 census, its population was 361 and it contained 182 housing units. Geography According to the 2021 census gazetteer files, Media Township has a total ...

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 Media, or mediums, are the core types of material (or related other tools) used by an artist, composer, designer, etc. to create a work of art. For example, a visual artist may broadly use the media of painting or sculpting, which themselves hav ...

, 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 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 ...

, 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''. Differe ...

, objects in which microorganisms or cells can experience growth *

Media filter A media filter is a type of filter (water), 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, i ...

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

Tunica media The tunica media (Neo-Latin "middle coat"), or media for short, is the middle tunica (layer) of an artery or vein. It lies between the internal elastic lamina of the tunica intima on the inside and the tunica externa on the outside. Artery The ...

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

Transport

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