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Media may refer to:

the communication of information.

- There are several ways one can communicate a message to another. Media has made several advancements. There were only two types of media that existed in the earlier days ; personal media and mass media.

- “Personal media was the communication of a message for a specific person while mass media referred to communicating the information to a large audience^[1]” - Media has made several advancements since the 19th century. Previously, the only forms of personal media involved verbal communication, but now there exist a vast array of choices like blogging or twitter. - The benefit of this kind of communication is that even though it might be directed specifically to one person, it can be published and viewed for the world to see.

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 medium, devices used to store information
- Social media, media disseminated through social interactions
- 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

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

Locations

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

Phonology

Traditional name of Voiced stop

Ships

RMS Media, a Cunard Line cargo liner in service 1948-61

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+{{TOC right}}the communication of information.
+-	There are several ways one can communicate a message to another. Media has made several advancements.
+There were only two types of media that existed in the earlier days ; personal media and mass media.
+-	“Personal media was the communication of a message for a specific person while mass media referred to communicating the information to a large audience<ref>{{cite web|last=Levin|first=Suny|title=Types of Media|url=http://www.globalization101.org/types-of-media-2|publisher=The Levin Institute}}</ref>”
+-	Media has made several advancements since the 19th century. Previously, the only forms of personal media involved verbal communication, but now there exist a vast array of choices like blogging or twitter.
+-	The benefit of this kind of communication is that even though it might be directed specifically to one person, it can be published and viewed for the world to see.
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