Media

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Media may refer to:

• plural of Latin medium "middle"
  • a means (a container or a vehicle) of carrying or communicating information
    • Recording media
    • Mass media (all means of mass communication e.g. magazines, cinema, films, newspapers, radio, television, internet, computer and video games, billboards, books, CDs, DVDs, videocassettes, other publishing.)
    • News media (specifically providing news, e.g. newspapers, television news)
    • News media (United States)
    • Multimedia
    • Electronic media (as distinguished from print media - includes pictures, radio, sound recordings, television, video recording, and streaming internet content)
    • Computer media
    • Media (arts), the materials and techniques used by an artist to produce a work
  • Growth media, for the culturing of microorganisms
• feminine of Latin medium
  • Tunica media, the middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel
  • Kaus Media, a star also known as Delta Sagittarii

• in geography
  • the realm of the Medes
  • Media, Pennsylvania
  • Media, Illinois

• in popular culture
  • Media, the 1998 album by The Faint

[edit] See also

• Medium
• Median

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