Media may refer to:

Communication

  • Media (communication), tools and channels used to deliver information or data
  • Advertising media, various media, content, buying and placement for advertising
  • Interactive media, media that is interactive
  • Media adequacy, specific aspects important for a successful transfer of information
  • MEDIA sub-programme of Creative Europe, a European Union initiative to support the European audiovisual sector
  • New media, the combination of traditional media and information and communications technology
  • Print media, communications delivered via paper or canvas
  • Recording medium, devices used to store information
  • Mass media, the institutions and methods of reaching a large audience
  • Broadcast media, communications delivered over mass electronic communication networks
  • News media, mass media focused on communicating news
  • Published media, any media made available to the public
  • Electronic media, communications delivered via electronic or electromechanical means
  • Digital media, digitized representations of information such as audio, video, images and text
  • Hypermedia, media with hyperlinks
  • Multimedia, communications that incorporate multiple forms of information content and processing (e.g., images, video, audio, and text)
  • Social media, internet-based ways of communicating with a social network

Places

  • Media (region), a region of northwestern Iran
  • Median kingdom, a kingdom and empire controlled by and extending beyond the region
  • Media, Africa, an Ancient city and former bishopric, now a Latin Catholic titular see in Algeria
  • Media (castra), a fort in the Roman province of Dacia

United States

  • Media, Illinois
  • Media, Kansas
  • Media, Pennsylvania
  • Media Township, Henderson County, Illinois

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, 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 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

See also

  • Mediaș, Sibiu, Transylvania, Romania
  • Medium (disambiguation)
  • Medea (disambiguation)
  • Midea (disambiguation)