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 question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.
— Pope John Paul II (b. 1920)