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
The futility of everything that comes to us from the media is the inescapable consequence of the absolute inability of that particular stage to remain silent. Music, commercial breaks, news flashes, adverts, news broadcasts, movies, presenters—there is no alternative but to fill the screen; otherwise there would be an irremediable void.... That’s why the slightest technical hitch, the slightest slip on the part of the presenter becomes so exciting, for it reveals the depth of the emptiness squinting out at us through this little window.
— Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)