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'''Media''' may refer to:

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== {{Anchor|Communication}} Communication ==
* [[Means of communication]], tools and channels used to deliver information or data
** [[Advertising media]], various media, content, buying and placement for advertising
** [[Interactive media]], media that is interactive
** [[Media adequacy]], specific aspects important for a successful transfer of information
** [[MEDIA sub-programme of Creative Europe]], a European Union initiative to support the European audiovisual sector
** [[New media]], the combination of traditional media and information and communications technology
** [[Print media]], communications delivered via paper or canvas
** [[Recording medium]], devices used to store information
* [[Mass media]], the institutions and methods of reaching a large audience
** [[Broadcast media]], communications delivered over mass electronic communication networks
** [[News media]], mass media focused on communicating news
** [[Published media]], any media made available to the public
* [[Electronic media]], communications delivered via electronic or electromechanical means
** [[Digital media]], digitized representations of information such as audio, video, images and text
*** [[Hypermedia]], media with hyperlinks
*** [[Multimedia]], communications that incorporate multiple forms of information content and processing (e.g., images, video, audio, and text)
** [[Social media]], internet-based ways of communicating with a social network

== Places ==
* [[Media (region)]], a region of northwestern Iran
* [[Median kingdom]], a kingdom and empire controlled by and extending beyond the region
* [[Media, Africa]], an Ancient city and former bishopric, now a Latin Catholic titular see in Algeria
* [[Media (castra)]], a fort in the Roman province of Dacia

=== United States ===
* [[Media, Illinois]]
* [[Media, Kansas]]
* [[Media, Pennsylvania]]
* [[Media Township, Henderson County, Illinois]]

== Arts, entertainment, and media ==
* [[Media (album)|''Media'' (album)]], the 1998 album by The Faint
* ''Media'', a 2017 American TV thriller film directed by [[Craig Ross Jr.]]
* [[List of art media]], materials and techniques used by an artist to produce a work of art

== Computing ==
* [[Media player (software)]], for playing audio and video
* [[Computer data storage#Storage media|Storage media]], in data storage devices

== Life sciences ==
* Media, a group of insect wing veins in the [[Comstock-Needham system]]
* [[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

==Transport==
* [[Media (automobile company)]]
* {{ship||Media|AK-83}}, a World War II US Navy ship that was never commissioned
* {{RMS|Media}}, a Cunard Line cargo liner in service 1948–61

== See also ==
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* [[Mediaș]], Sibiu, Transylvania, Romania
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* [[Medium (disambiguation)]]
* [[Medea (disambiguation)]]
* [[Midea (disambiguation)]]

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