Communications

• Media (communication)
  Media (communication)
  In communications, media are the storage and transmission channels or tools used to store and deliver information or data...
  
  , 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
    Digital media
    Digital media is a form of electronic media where data is stored in digital form. It can refer to the technical aspect of storage and transmission Digital media is a form of electronic media where data is stored in digital (as opposed to analog) form. It can refer to the technical aspect of...
    
    , electronic media used to store, transmit, and receive digitized information
  • Electronic media
    Electronic media
    Electronic media are media that use electronics or electromechanical energy for the end-user to access the content. This is in contrast to static media , which today are most often created electronically, but don't require electronics to be accessed by the end-user in the printed form...
    
    , communications delivered via electronic or electromechanical energy
  • Hypermedia
    Hypermedia
    Hypermedia is a computer-based information retrieval system that enables a user to gain or provide access to texts, audio and video recordings, photographs and computer graphics related to a particular subject.Hypermedia is a term created by Ted Nelson....
    
    , media with hyperlinks
  • Mass media
    Mass media
    Mass media refers collectively to all media technologies which are intended to reach a large audience via mass communication. Broadcast media transmit their information electronically and comprise of television, film and radio, movies, CDs, DVDs and some other gadgets like cameras or video consoles...
    
    , all means of mass communications
  • Multimedia
    Multimedia
    Multimedia is media and content that uses a combination of different content forms. The term can be used as a noun or as an adjective describing a medium as having multiple content forms. The term is used in contrast to media which use only rudimentary computer display such as text-only, or...
    
    , communications that incorporate multiple forms of information content and processing
  • New media
    New media
    New media is a broad term in media studies that emerged in the latter part of the 20th century. For example, new media holds out a possibility of on-demand access to content any time, anywhere, on any digital device, as well as interactive user feedback, creative participation and community...
    
    , a broad term encompassing the amalgamation of traditional media with the interactive power of computer and communications technology
  • News media
    News media
    The news media are those elements of the mass media that focus on delivering news to the general public or a target public.These include print media , broadcast news , and more recently the Internet .-Etymology:A medium is a carrier of something...
    
    , mass media focused on communicating news
  • News media (United States)
    News media (United States)
    Mass media are the means through which information is transmitted to a large audience. This includes newspapers, television, radio, and more recently the Internet. Those who provide news and information, and the outlets for which they work, are known as the news media.Some high-quality news media...
    
    , 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 medium, devices used to store information
  • Social media
    Social media
    The term Social Media refers to the use of web-based and mobile technologies to turn communication into an interactive dialogue. Andreas Kaplan and Michael Haenlein define social media as "a group of Internet-based applications that build on the ideological and technological foundations of Web 2.0,...
    
    , 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

History

• Median Empire, an ancient Iranian kingdom of the Medians (Medes) in north-western Iran

Life sciences

• Growth medium
  Growth medium
  A growth medium or culture medium is a liquid or gel designed to support the growth of microorganisms or cells, or small plants like the moss Physcomitrella patens.There are different types of media for growing different types of cells....
  
  , objects in which microorganisms or cells can experience growth
• Media filter
  Media filter
  A media filter is a type of filter that uses a bed of sand, crushed granite or other material to filter water for drinking, swimming pools, aquaculture, irrigation, stormwater management and other applications.-Filter Design:...
  
  , a filter consisting of several different filter materials
• Tunica media
  Tunica media
  The tunica media is the middle layer of an artery or vein.-Artery:It is made up of smooth muscle cells and elastic tissue...
  
  , the middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel
• A group of insect wing veins in the Comstock-Needham system

See also

• Media ecology
  Media ecology
  Media ecology is a contested term within media studies having different meanings within European and North American contexts. The North American definition refers to aninterdisciplinary field of media theory and media design involving the study of "symbolic environment, or the socially constructed,...
  
  
• Media meshing
  Media meshing
  Media meshing is the process of using one of the media, such as a blog or a website, to enhance the experience of another medium, such as a newspaper article or a fictional television program. "Meshing" may describe activities and motivations of an information receiver which are completely...
  
  
• Media psychology
  Media Psychology
  Media Psychology seeks an understanding of how people perceive, interpret, use, and respond to a media-rich world. In doing so, media psychologists can identify potential benefits and problems and promote the development of positive media ....
  
  
• Media studies
  Media studies
  Media studies is an academic discipline and field of study that deals with the content, history and effects of various media; in particular, the 'mass media'. Media studies may draw on traditions from both the social sciences and the humanities, but mostly from its core disciplines of mass...
  
  
• Medium (disambiguation)
• Multimedia learning
  Multimedia learning
  Multimedia learning is the common name used to describe the cognitive theory of multimedia learning This theory encompasses several principles of learning with multimedia.-The Modality principle:...
  
  
• Kaus Media, a star system in the constellation Sagittarius