Media may refer to:
Communications
- Media (communication), tools used to store and 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
- Mass media, all means of mass communications
- Multimedia, communications that incorporate multiple forms of information content and processing
- New media, a broad term encompassing the amalgamation of traditional media with the interactive power of computer and communications technology
- News media, mass media focused on communicating news
- News media (United States), the news media of the United States of America
- Print media, communications delivered via paper or canvas
- Published media, any media made available to the public
- Recording media, devices used to store information
- Social media, media disseminated through social interaction
- MEDIA Programme, a European Union initiative to support the European audiovisual sector
Computing
- Media (computer), used in computer data storage devices
- Media player (application software), a piece of software designed to play audio and videos
Fine art
- Media (arts), materials and techniques used by an artist to produce a work
History
- Median Empire, an ancient Iranian kingdom of the Medians (Medes) in north-western Iran
Life sciences
- 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
- A group of insect wing veins in the Comstock-Needham system
Places
- Media, Illinois
- Media, Pennsylvania
Music
- Media (album), the 1998 album by The Faint
Mythology
- Medea, the daughter of King Aeëtes of Colchis in Greek mythology
Ships
- RMS Media, a Cunard Line cargo liner in service 1948-61
Even assuming the possibility of greater knowledge among responsive young children of a mass media age, it is questionable whether an increase in verbal knowledge and expression has much effect on the capacity for understanding in depth or on the style of behavior of children with no more than five years of living and growing behind them.... The drawings of contemporary fives are no more complex, the capacity for judgment no sharper, the feelings of helplessness when they get sick or into trouble no less painful than they have ever been, as far as we know.
— Dorothy H. Cohen (20th century)