Media

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
  • 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 middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel

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

Transport
gollark: It's not unusable. It's just bad.
gollark: I mean, the HDD and never-changed thermal paste probably didn't help.
gollark: And one of my parents has (they're replacing it now, though) a ~10-year-old laptop which ran glacially slowly.
gollark: I used it for several years when I was a foolish younger person.
gollark: Plus updates are annoying. I can update *mostly* without reboots (they take 25 seconds anyway) and in the background.

See also
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