Media
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
"One of the earliest known associations between the media and suicide arose from Goethe's novel Die Leiden des jungen Werthers. Soon after its publication in 1774, young men began to mimic the main character by dressing in yellow pants and blue jackets. In the novel, Werther shoots himself with a pistol after he is rejected by the woman he loves, and shortly after its publication there were reports of young men using the same method to kill themselves in acts of hopelessness. This resulted in the book being banned in several places. Hence the term "Werther effect", used in the technical literature to designate copycat suicides."--Sholem Stein |
Illustration: Laocoön and His Sons ("Clamores horrendos" detail), photo by Marie-Lan Nguyen.
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Media is plural for medium.
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Usage notes
When referring to the media, as in the mass media, i.e., the mass-communication industry comprising journalism and entertainment, media is usually held to be a singular noun (because it is not the plural of medium. It is a term derived from the concept of an industry communicating through different media, e.g., newspapers, television, films, magazines). In all other cases, it is the plural of medium, whether one is referring to artistic media, storage media (e.g., blank media, such as CDs), media players, etc.
Media may refer to:
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 Business Media, digital media for electronic business
- Electronic media, communications delivered via electronic or electromechanical energy
- Hypermedia, media with hyperlinks
- Mass media, all means of mass communication
- Multimedia, communications that incorporate multiple forms of information content and processing
- New media, media that can only be created or used with the aid of modern computer processing power
- 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 media, devices used to store information
- Social media, media disseminated through social interaction
- Media Plus, European Union program
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
Fine art
- Media (arts), materials and techniques used by an artist to produce a work
Life sciences
- Growth media, 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
Titles/names
Locations
- Median Empire, the ancient kingdom of the Medes in north-western Iran
- Media, Illinois
- Media, Pennsylvania
- Kaus Media, a star system in the constellation Sagittarius
Music
- Media (album), the 1998 album by The Faint
Mythology
- Medea, the daughter of King Aeëtes of Colchis in Greek mythology
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