Media Definition

1. Materials that hold data in any form or that allow data to pass through them, including paper, transparencies, multipart form, hand, floppy and optical, disc, magnetic tape, wire, cable and fiber. Media is the plural of "medium".
2. Any form of information, including music and movie. May also refer to CDs, DVDs, videotapes, and other prerecord material.
3. The trade press.

Media may refer to:

1. In communication:
   

• Media (communication), tools used to store and deliver information or data
  Recording media, devices used to store information
  Print media, communications delivered via paper or canvas
  Electronic media, communications delivered via electronic or electromechanical energy
  Multimedia, communications that incorporate multiple forms of information content and processing
  Hypermedia, media with hyperlinks
  Digital media, electronic media used to store, transmit, and receive digitized information
  Electronic Business Media, digital media for electronic business
  Published media, any media made available to the public
  Mass media, all means of mass communication
  Broadcast media, communications delivered over mass electronic communication networks
  News media, mass media focused on communicating news
  News media (United States), the news media of the United States of America
  Advertising media, various media, content, buying and placement for advertising
  New media, media that can only be created or used with the aid of modern computer processing power
  In computing:
  Computer data storage devices, material objects which hold data used in computers
  Media player (application software), a piece of software designed to play audio and videos.
  
• In fine art:
  Media (arts), materials and techniques used by an artist to produce a work

• In life science:
  Growth media, objects in which microorganisms or cells can experience growth
  Tunica media, the middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel
  Media filter, a filter consisting of several different filter materials