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For other meanings of "medium," see Medium (disambiguation).A medium (plural media) is a carrier of something. Common things carried by media include information, art, or physical objects. A medium may provide transmission or storage of information or both.
By metonymy, the industries which produce news and entertainment content for the mass media are often called "the media" (in much the same way the newspaper industry is called "the press"). In the late 20th century it became commonplace for this usage to be construed as singular ("The media is...") rather than as the traditional plural.
1 Types of media
A medium is characterized by what it carries, as follows:
1.1 Information media
- Speech, gestures, telephone.
- Stone scores, audio and video recordings, hard disks
- Paper, letter mail
- Mass media: recitations, newspaper, magazine, movies, broadcast media ( television, radio, streaming media), Compact discCD re-directs here; see Cd for other meanings of CD . A compact disc (or CD is an optical disc used for storing digital data. It was originally invented for digital audio and is also used as a data storage device, a CD-ROM. CD-ROM reading devices are a sts, DVDDVD is an optical disc storage media format that is used for playback of movies with high video and sound quality and for storing data. DVDs are similar in appearance to compact discs. History During the early 1990s there were two high density optical stos, videocassettes
- Interactive media : computer gameA computer game is any sort of game that is played using a computer. General Although often associated, computer games are not necessarily video games although all but the earliest video games (such as Pong, which used dedicated analogue circuitry) are cos, online games, video gamescreenshot of Tetris for the Nintendo Game BoyA video game is a game played using an electronic device with a visual display. Overview Often "video game" is taken in a narrow sense to mean those games played on consoles for television and similar handhelds, edutainmentEdutainment is a recently coined term, a portmanteau, that expresses the union between education and entertainment in a television program, game or website. Examples would include Sesame Street The Electric Company and Mr. See also: Educational game, Info, interactive televisionInteractive television describes any number of efforts to allow viewers to interact with television content as they view. It is sometimes called interactive TV, iTV, idTV or ITV (not to be confused with the British Independent Television network). To be t
- The InternetThis article is about the Internet the extensive, worldwide computer network available to the public. An internet is a more general term for a set of interconnected computer networks that are connected by internetworking''. WWW information network structu is a mix of mass media and personal media
1.1.1 Regional media
1.2 Art media
- In art, the medium is the material in which an artist works (ie paint, wood, marble, steel, etc).
1.3 Physical object media
In biology and chemistry, a solvent serves as a medium for molecules.
A medium through which waves propagate may be classified as follows:
- Linear medium, if different waves at any particular point in the medium can be added;
- Bounded medium, if it is finite in extent, otherwise unbounded medium;
- Uniform medium, if its physical properties are unchanged at different points;
- Isotropic medium, if its physical properties are the same in different directions.
