Word definition for media

The term media, which is the plural of medium, refers to the communication channels through which we disseminate news, music, movies, education, promotional messages and other data. It includes physical and online newspapers and magazines, television, radio, billboards, telephone, the Internet, fax and billboards.

It describes the various ways through which we communicate in society. Because it refers to all means of communication, everything ranging from a telephone call to the evening news on television can be called media.

When talking about reaching a very large number of people we say mass media. Local media refers to, for example, your local newspaper, or local/regional TV/radio channels.

We used to get all our news and entertainment via TV, radio, newspapers and magazines. Today the Internet is gradually taking over. Print newspapers are struggling as hundreds of millions of people each year switch to news sources online.

Different types of media

Media can be broken down into two main categories: broadcast and print. The Internet has also emerged as a major player, as a rapidly-growing number of people globally get their news, movies, etc. online.

Print Media includes all types of publications, including newspapers, journals, magazines, books and reports. It is the oldest type, and despite suffering since the emergence of the Internet, is still used by a major proportion of the population.

Broadcast Media refers to radio and TV, which came onto the scene at the beginning and middle of the 20th century respectively. Most people still get their news from TV and radio broadcasts – however, experts predict that it will not be long before online sources take over.

Over the past twenty years, cable news has grown in importance.

The Internet – specifically websites and blogs – are rapidly emerging as viable and major channels of communication as more and more people seek news, entertainment and educational material online. The term ‘viable,’ in business, means capable of generating profits for many years.

Virtually every part of the Internet has become a medium of communication – most free email services have little boxes that display ads and other messages.

The Internet as we know it today did not really take off until the 1990s. In 1995, just 1% of the world’s population was online, compared to over 49% today. The notion of the Internet started in the 1960s in the USA during the Cold War, when the military and scientists were worried about a missile attack, which could knock out the telephone system.

Stephen Hawking, a British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology within the University of Cambridge, once said: “The media need superheroes in science just as in every sphere of life, but there is really a continuous range of abilities with no clear dividing line.” 

What is social media?

Social media is a collective of online communication channels where communities interact, share content and collaborate.

Websites and apps dedicated to social networking, microblogging, forums, social bookmarking, wikis and social curation are examples of some types of social media.

The most famous social networking companies are Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and Instagram.

Just twenty-one years ago, very few people across the world knew what the Internet was. Today it has become a part of our lives. It is destined to become the number 1 channel for communicating with the world’s population. (Data Source: internetworldstats.com)

Media ‘is’ or ‘are’?

If media is the plural of medium, then one would think that it should be used grammatically in the plural – the verb that follows it should be in the plural form, shouldn’t it?

However, in most literature it is used as a singular noun, and is interpreted as a collective singular, similar to other collective nouns such as ‘team’ or ‘group’. Therefore, to write the ‘media is’ is perfectly acceptable today. Some people may insist it is wrong, but it is still acceptable – languages are constantly evolving.

According to Collins Dictionary, media is:

“The means of communication that reach large numbers of people, such as television, newspapers, and radio.”

It all started thousands of years ago

Human communication through designed channels – not through speech or gestures – dates back to many tens of thousands of years ago when our ancient ancestors painted on the walls of caves.

The cave paintings at Lascaux in southwestern France, estimated to be over 17,000 years old, are no less viable expressions of media than our current TV shows and magazines.

The Persian Empire – c. 550–330 BC – played a major role in the history of human communication through designed channels. Persian Emperor Cyrus the Great (c. 550 BC) developed the first ever real postal system. It was an effective intelligence-gathering apparatus, called Angariae, a term that later indicated a tax system.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), a Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher claimed in the 1830s that the printing press created the modern world by destroying feudalism. Many historians say that the advent of the printing press was the birth of what we know today as media.

The term media in its current application relating to channels of communications was first used by Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980), a Canadian professor, philosopher, and public intellectual who said: “The media are not toys; they should not be in the hands of Mother Goose and Peter Pan executives. They can be entrusted only to new artists, because they are art forms.”

By the mid-1960s, the term spread to general use in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.

1	0   0 X-ray dyes used to provide contrast, for example, between blood vessels and other tissue. Commonly spoken of as «contrast.»

2	0   0 Media Relationships Related Term:  medium n. ~ 1. Plural of medium. — 2. The mass communications industry and profession as a whole, including newspapers, television, and radio.

3	0   0 Media One of the two innermost layers of the walls of the carotid arteries.

4	0   0 Media The plural form of medium; the term has come to mean all the industrial forms of mass communication combined.

5	0   0 Media 1 the media [uncountable, plural] the main ways that large numbers of people receive information and entertainment, that is television, radio, newspapers, and the Internet the news/broadcasting/nation [..]

6	0   0 Media «newspapers, radio, TV, etc.» 1927, perhaps abstracted from mass media (1923, a technical term in advertising), plural of medium, on notion of «intermediate agency,» a sense found [..]

7	0   0 Media Refer to «See Also» column to the right.

8	0   0 Media Stories “Above the Line” (May 2013 Friend) Robert’s family turns off a TV show when the people in the show start telling rude jokes.“Aim for the Best” (August 2015 Friend) Guidelines to help [..]

9	0   0 Media Elements of a surrounding environment that can be sampled for contamination; usually soil, water, or air. Plants, as well as humans (when sampling blood, urine, etc) and animals (such as sampling fish [..]

10	0   0 Media Material that information is written to and stored on. Digital photography storage media includes CompactFlash cards and CDs. Read articles that include this term

11	0   0 Media Media [N] [H]Heb. Madai, which is rendered in the Authorized Version (1) «Madai,» Genesis 10:2 ; (2) «Medes,» 2 Kings 17:6 ; 18:11 ; (3) «Media,» Esther 1:3 ; 10:2 ; Isa [..]

12	0   0 Media means of mass communication, such as television or the Internet. Singular: medium.

13	0   0 Media The environment in which the transmission signal is carried.

14	0   0 Media definition – see Filter Media

15	0   0 Media The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) defines the main directories and their contents in Linux operating systems. For the most part, it is a formalization and extension of the traditional BSD filesy [..]

16	0   0 Media News

17	0   0 Media 1. Generic term for elements such as movies, sounds, and pictures. 2. An object or device, such as a disk, on which data (Content) is stored.

18	0   0 Media News

19	0   0 Media Means of communication, for example print, digital. Plural of medium.

20	0   0 Media the substance(s) being conveyed through a system.

21	0   0 Media Heb. Madai, which is rendered in the Authorized Version (1) «Madai,» Gen. 10:2; (2) «Medes,» 2 Kings 17:6; 18:11; (3) «Media,» Esther 1:3; 10:2; Isa. 21:2; Dan. 8:20; (4) [..]

22	0   0 Media Media. measure; habit; covering

23	0   0 Media Plural of medium. (1) Objects on which data can be stored. These include hard disks, floppy disks, CD-ROMs, and tapes. (2) In computer networks, media refers to the cables linking workstations togethe [..]

24	0   0 Media The forms on which a source is stored. Common media used in family history research include books, microfilms, microfiche, compact discs, and so forth.

25	0   0 Media Traditional and new media including print television radio and online forums (including but not limited to news sites comment boards social networking sites blogs podcasts etc.).

26	0   0 Media A generic term for nonprint library materials (films, filmstrips, slides, videorecordings, audiorecordings, CD-ROMs, machine-readable data files, computer software, etc.). Microforms are not considere [..]

27	0   0 Media The radio, television, Internet, magazines and newspapers and the journalists who work for them.

28	0   0 Media Medios de Información

29	0   0 Media Filipino-controlled tool ostensibly intended to distribute news and information, but which is in actuality used by the Filipinos to spread disinformation and propaganda to promote their vast worldwide [..]

30	0   0 Media The middle, muscular layer in the wall of an artery.

31	0   0 Media 1) Mass communication enterprises including print (newspapers, magazines) or broadcast (radio, television) 2) Individuals employed in the communications industry.

32	0   0 Media Print, television, radio, internet, billboards etc are all forms of media that help in communicating with audiences on a large scale — their reach, quality and affect differ from each other.

33	0   0 Media Materials that form a barrier to the passage of certain suspended solids or dissolved liquids in filters.

34	0   0 Media Any paid for communication channel including television, radio, posters etc.. Mercantilism.

35	0   0 Media (1) Short for mass media or news media, publishers or broadcasters bringing news and information to widespread audiences. (2) Plural of medium, different forms of communicating ideas such as digital, [..]

36	0   0 Media Materials that form a barrier to the passage of certain suspended solids or dissolved liquids in filters.

37	0   0 Media A collective term for outputs which monetize IP (intellectual properties), including pachinko/pachislot, game, TV, movie, online, mobile, etc.

38	0   0 Media The material that is printed upon, such as plain paper, glossy paper, or transparency film.

39	0   0 Media See Medium

40	0   0 Media (n) a means or instrumentality for storing or communicating information(n) the surrounding environment(n) an intervening substance through which signals can travel as a means for communication(n)  [..]

41	0   0 Media An outdated term for a (voiced) unaspirated plosive.

42	0   0 Media The fine material of a filter that traps dirt, dust, mildew or bacteria.

43	0   0 Media The fine material of a filter that traps dirt, dust, mildew and bacteria.

44	0   0 Media The material in a filter that traps and holds the impurities. These HVAC filter media include fiberglass filter media, polyester filter media, dog hair filter media, blue/green filter media, charcoal [..]

45

0   0 Media   The physical material which stores computer information. Comes in two basic types — Fixed and Removable — and a variety of flavours:- Hard Disk, Floppy Disk, Compact Disc, Laser Disk, Magneto-Optical Disk, Zip Disk, Super Floppy, Magnetic Tape Reel, Magnetic Tape Cartridge, Digital Audio Tape, Paper Tape, and so on and so forth. Each of these ha [..]

46	0   0 Media Physical objects that store data, such as paper, hard disk drives, tapes, and compact disks (CDs).

47	0   0 Media Another term for substrate. The materials to be printed on, such as watercolor papers, canvas, copper, wood veneer, cotton, plastic and exotic papers like Japanese Kochi.

48	0   0 Media The material in a filter that traps and holds the impurities.

49	0   0 Media The material in a filter that traps and holds the impurities. These HVAC filter media include fiberglass filter media, polyester filter media, dog hair filter media, blue/green filter media, charcoal filter media, and others.

50	0   0 Media Specific environments — air, water, soil — which are the subject of regulatory concern and activities.

51	0   0 Media Specific environments—air, water, soil—which are the subject of regulatory concern and activities.

52	0   0 Media The material in a filter that traps and holds the impurities. These HVAC filter media include fiberglass filter media, polyester filter media, dog hair filter media, blue/green filter media, charcoal filter media, and others.

53	0   0 Media Specific environments—air, water, soil—which are the subject of regulatory concern and activities.

54	0   0 Media The material in a filter that traps and holds the impurities. These HVAC filter media include fiberglass filter media, polyester filter media, dog hair filter media, blue/green filter media, charcoal [..]

55	0   0 Media The material in a filter that traps and holds the impurities. These HVAC filter media include fiberglass filter media, polyester filter media, dog hair filter media, blue/green filter media, charcoal [..]

56	0   0 Media The material in a filter that traps and holds the impurities.

57	0   0 Media Material that information is written to and stored on. Digital photography storage media includes CompactFlash cards and CDs. Read articles that include this term

58	0   0 Media Press/Media

59	0   0 Media The means of interchanging or transmitting and receiving information. Historically the media were written: books, journals, Newspapers, and other Publications; in the modern age the media include, in [..]

60	0   0 Media Culture Media containing biologically active components obtained from previously Cultured Cells or Tissues that have released into the media substances affecting certain Cell functions (e.g., Growth, [..]

61	0   0 Media Substances used to allow enhanced visualization of Tissues.

62	0   0 Media Any liquid or solid preparation made specifically for the Growth, storage, or transport of microorganisms or other types of Cells. The variety of media that exist allow for the culturing of specific m [..]

63	0   0 Media Instruments or technological means of Communication that reach large numbers of people with a common message: press, Radio, Television, etc.

64	0   0 Media A spiral tube that is firmly suspended in the bony shell-shaped part of the Cochlea. This Endolymph-filled Cochlear duct begins at the vestibule and makes 2.5 turns around a core of spongy bone (the m [..]

65	0   0 Media Culture Media free of Serum Proteins but including the minimal essential substances required for Cell Growth. This type of medium avoids the presence of extraneous substances that may Affect Cell Prol [..]

66	0   0 Media Platforms that provide the ability and tools to create and publish information accessed via the Internet. Generally these platforms have three characteristics with content user generated, high degree [..]

67	0   0 Media The middle coat of Blood Vessel walls, composed principally of thin, cylindrical, Smooth Muscle Cells and Elastic Tissue. It accounts for the bulk of the wall of most Arteries. The Smooth Muscle Cells [..]

68	0   0 Media Media refers to the tools used to store and deliver information or data. The term media can refer to advertising, digital media, electronic media, hypermedia, mass media and multimedia, among many oth [..]

69	0   0 Media The longitudinal vein running through the central region of the wing in most insects: often the 4th and abbreviated to M. Median oviduct.

70	0   0 Media Video

71	0   0 Media The material that performs the separation of solids from liquids.

72	0   0 Media Substances used to provide sterile nutrients to the fermentation or cell growth process supporting the growth of the live microorganisms. Media may be liquid (broth) or solid, and generally include su [..]

73	0   0 Media (M

74	0   0 Media the fourth major vein in a wing

75	0   0 Media The fourth major vein in a wing. mesothorax

76	0   0 Media The material in a trickling filter on which slime accumulates and organisms grow. As settled wastewater trickles over the media, organisms in the slime remove certain types of wastes, thereby partiall [..]

77	0   0 Media 1.) Original source of a software program provided by the manufacturer or software publisher, e.g., CD, DVD, video, download, data tape and/or paper documentation. 2.) Tangible object for storing or s [..]

78	0   0 Media «Media» means all active information processing material including all forms of data, program material and related engineering specifications employed in the agency’s information proces [..]

79	0   0 Media Media is the data storage (for example CD) accompanying the software product, which contains the files needed to install and use the software.

80	0   0 Media About Us

81	0   0 Media Media is the plural for medium which is the filtering material in a filter.

82	0   0 Media Media is the mat or sheet of filter fibers which captures dust in a mechanical filter. It is the plural of medium. There are certain instances where medium should be used, but popular usage makes medi [..]

83	0   0 Media The fine material of a filter that traps dirt, dust, mildew or bacteria.

84	0   0 Media Any uploaded file (image, audio, video, or document) stored in the Media library. related: medias

85	0   0 Media or physical media; best explained by example: 9-track, QIC (1/4″ cartridge tape), audio cassette tape, 3.5″ or 5.25″ floppy disk, 4mm DAT, 8mm data tape, 8mm video tape, optical disk, [..]

86	0   0 Media The filter material through which air or fluid passes in the process of filtration and which retains particles.

87	0   0 Media The material in a filter that traps and holds the impurities. These HVAC filter media include fiberglass filter media, polyester filter media, dog hair filter media, blue/green filter media, charcoal [..]

88	0   0 Media  The material in a filter that traps and holds the impurities. These HVAC filter media include fiberglass filter media, polyester filter media, dog hair filter media, blue/green filter media, charcoa [..]

89	0   0 Media The material in a filter that traps and holds the impurities. These HVAC filter media include fiberglass filter media, polyester filter media, dog hair filter media, blue/green filter media, charcoal [..]

90	0   0 Media The porous article or mass through which a gas or liquid is passed to separate out the matter in suspension. In the case of dust collector cartridges, this is the primary component or tool in which th [..]

91	0   0 Media A means of communication that reaches a wide variety of people, such as newspaper, radio, television, magazine, and Internet.

92	0   0 Media A discounted rate offered to a company based on the volume of business you agree to provide the selected vendor.

93	0   0 Media means of communication, such as television, radio, newspapers.

94	0   0 Media The documentation of monetary transactions (i.e., sales drafts, credit slips, computer printouts, etc.).

95	0   0 Media New products

96	0   0 Media with respect to filtration, the plural of ‘medium’.

97	0   0 Media A broad term that normally defines physical devices in all formats that store and communicate information. Some examples of media as they relate to computers are: CDRoms, tapes, diskettes, disk drives [..]

98	0   0 Media Materials that hold data in any form, including Disaster Recovery material (in limited volume), transparencies, hard, floppy and optical disks/drives, magnetic tape, server cabinets.

99	0   0 Media Materials used to create an artwork, such as clay or paint. The singular of media is medium.

100	0   0 Media A material or technique, such as paint applied to canvas with a brush.

101	0   0 Media Communication devices used to transmit and store information.

102	0   0 Media Primary or underlying material on which other materials (such as ink, coating, paint, or treatment) are applied, or from which other materials are made.  Also called Substrate.

103	0   0 Media A zoom or resize that is created from an Image file previously uploaded to the Rich Image library

104	0   0 Media the physical devices used to record, store, and (or) transmit data.

105	0   0 Media The materials to be printed, such as watercolor papers, canvas, copper, wood veneer, cotton, plastic. Mixed media

106	0   0 Media

107	0   0 Media a historical region in northwestern Iran, originally inhabited by the Medes territories corresponding to the empire ruled by dynasts from Media

108	0   0 Media A mixture of inorganic salts and other nutrients capable of sustaining cell survival in vitro.

109	0   0 Media Press Releases

110	0   0 Media Materials that are used to create a work of art or are understood within a certain genre, like painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, or film. The term can also refer to tools or methods to de [..]

111	0   0 Media Media may refer to:

112	0   0 Media Media is the first studio album by new wave revivalists The Faint. Formally known as Norman Bailer, this is the first album under the Faint name. It was released on March 24, 1998. A clear style chan [..]

113	0   0 Media Media may refer to:

114	0   0 Media Media (Old Persian:

115	0   0 Media Media may refer to:

116	0   0 Media Media (AK-83) was a World War II US navy ship that was never commissioned and thus never bore the USS designation.Media (AK-83) was contracted to be built as Oliver R. Mumford under Maritime Commissio [..]

117	0   0 Media In mass communication, media are the communication outlets or tools used to store and deliver information or data. The term refers to components of the mass media communications industry, such as prin [..]

118	0   0 Media Media may refer to:

119	0   0 Media Media was an American electric automobile built in 1899 and 1900 in Media, Pennsylvania.

120	0   0 Media Media was a fort in the Roman province of Dacia.

121	0   0 Media Media was a fort in the Roman province of Dacia.

122	0   1 Media In general, «media» refers to various means of communication. For example, television, radio, and the newspaper are different types of media. The term can also be used as a collective noun f [..]

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1. median. sing. & pl.

   The public institutions that report the news, such as newspapers, magazines, radio, and television, collectively; the news media; as, the media were obsessed with Monica Lewinsky for months.

2. median. sing. & pl.

   The latinic plural form of medium, sometimes used as a singular noun with the same meaning as medium; as, (Computers) place your installation media into the device which will read it; (Microbiology) the tuberculosis bacterium will only grow in a special media.

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1. medianoun

   The middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel or lymph vessel which is composed of connective and muscular tissue.

2. medianoun

   A voiced stop consonant.

3. medianoun

   Means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information.

   As a result of the rise of, first, television news and entertainment media and, second, web-based media, traditional print-based media have declined in popularity.

4. media

   The journalists and other professionals who comprise the mass communication industry.

   Some celebrities dislike press conferences, where the media bombard them with questions.

5. Medianoun

   a historical region in northwestern Iran, originally inhabited by the Medes

6. Medianoun

   territories corresponding to the empire ruled by dynasts from Media

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1. Medianoun

   pl. of Medium

2. Medianoun

   one of the sonant mutes /, /, / (b, d, g), in Greek, or of their equivalents in other languages, so named as intermediate between the tenues, /, /, / (p, t, k), and the aspiratae (aspirates) /, /, / (ph or f, th, ch). Also called middle mute, or medial, and sometimes soft mute

3. Media

   of Medium

4. Etymology: [NL., fr. L. medius middle.]

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1. Media

   Media are the storage and transmission channels or tools used to store and deliver information or data. It is often referred to as synonymous with mass media or news media, but may refer to a single medium used to communicate any data for any purpose.

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1. Media

   See Medium.

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1. Media

   a country on the SW. of the Caspian Sea, originally a province of the Assyrian empire, from which it revolted; was after 150 years of independence annexed to Persia by Cyrus, of which it had formed the NW. portion.

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1. media

   In ancient times, the name of the northwestern part of Iran, which was bounded by the Caspian Sea on the north, Persia on the south, Parthia on the east, and Assyria on the west. The Medians were in language, religion, and manners very nearly allied to the Persians. After they had shaken off the yoke of the Assyrians, their tribes united about 708 B.C., chose Dejoces for their chief, and made Ecbatana their capital. His son Phraortes, or Arphaxad, subdued the Persians. Cyaxares, the son of Phraortes, in alliance with Nabopolassar, king of Babylon, overthrew the Assyrian empire about 604 B.C., spread the terror of his arms as far as Egypt and the farthest bounds of Asia Minor, and vanquished the brigand hordes of Scythia, who had carried their ravages as far as Syria. He was succeeded by his son Astyage, who was deposed (560 B.C.) by his own grandson Cyrus, king of Persia; and from this time the two nations are spoken of as one people. After the death of Alexander the Great (324 B.C.), the northwest portion of Media became a separate kingdom, and existed till the time of Augustus; the other portion, under the name of Great Media, forming a part of the Syrian monarchy. Media was on several occasions separated from Persia. In 152 B.C., Mithridates I. took Great Media from the Syrians, and annexed it to the Parthian empire, and about 36 B.C., it had a king of its own, named Artavasdes, against whom Mark Antony made war. Under the Sassanian dynasty, the whole of Media was united to Persia. It became, during the 14th and 15th centuries, the stronghold of the Turkoman tribes. In early times the Medes were a warlike race, and were distinguished for their skill with the bow. They were also celebrated for their horsemanship, and it was from them that the Persians adopted this and other favorite exercises and acquirements. In subsequent times, they appear to have become effeminated by luxury.

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1. media

   A form of communications technology, structure and systems that empowers people to connect, communicate and express their truth.

   Social media enables instant communication and is a form of media that people are allowed to have in private.

   Submitted by MaryC on April 3, 2020  

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1. Media

   the fourth of the longitudinal veins extending from base through approximately the middle of the wing, not more than four branched, the branches numbered on margin from nearest apex, to 4 nearest anal angle: in Orthoptera; it is the median or externomedian: in Lepidoptera (Pack.), is cubitus (Comst.).

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1. MEDIA

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Media is ranked #76029 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

   The Media surname appeared 253 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Media.

   68.7% or 174 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   18.1% or 46 total occurrences were White.
   5.1% or 13 total occurrences were Black.
   3.5% or 9 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word ‘MEDIA’ in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1266

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word ‘MEDIA’ in Written Corpus Frequency: #2228

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of MEDIA in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of MEDIA in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of MEDIA in a Sentence

1. Brock Silvers:

   It appears that Alibaba’s break-up has been orchestrated by Beijing, this idea is reinforced by Jack Ma’s sudden reappearance, which now seems like a planned media event intended to boost market sentiment at a critical moment.

2. Mukaibar Shah:

   If that mainstream media survey says that the economy pegs high GDP Growth, it means economy is going to contract or fall down .

3. Unathi Kwaza:

   He rubs the media the wrong way because he has never been politically correct. For me that is a great thing, there’s nothing worse than not knowing what a person is really thinking because they’re afraid others wouldn’t approve.

4. Andy Lipkin:

   The positive result here is a clear example of the importance of monitoring social media to identify credible, hate-fueled threats before they are acted on.

5. President Obama:

   It is possible that this was terrorist-related but we don’t know, it’s also possible that this was workplace related and until the FBI has been able to conduct what is going to be a large number of individuals, until we understand the nature of the workplace relation between the individual and his superiors, because he worked with the organization where this terrible shooting took place, until all the social media and electronic info has been exploited, we’re just not going to be able to answer those questions.

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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a business/financial/media etc empire

▪ His business empire is now worth over $20 billion.

a media/marketing/advertising etc blitz

▪ The campaign was launched with a nationwide publicity blitz.

a media/press campaign

▪ The government spent thousands of pounds on a media campaign.

industrial/financial/media etc conglomerate

magnetic media

mass media

▪ The crime received heavy coverage in the mass media.

media circus

▪ The trial has turned into a media circus.

media hype

▪ Despite the media hype, I found the film very disappointing.

media scrutiny (=by newspapers, TV etc)

▪ How does he cope with the intense media scrutiny?

media studies

media/press coverage (=on television, in newpapers etc)

▪ The case has received wide press coverage.

media/property/business/newspaper tycoon

▪ a multi-millionaire property tycoon

mixed media

new media

political/media/TV etc pundits

▪ If you believe the fashion pundits, we’ll all be wearing pink this year.

portable media player

press/media speculation

▪ She appealed for an end to press speculation about her marriage.

streaming media

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

different

▪ A range of different media were offered for pairs to choose from.

▪ This is particularly significant in the definition and subsequent management of the same record stored on several different media.

▪ Relationships between the same document in different media may require some thought.

▪ In order to use Split-type working, there must of course be two different types of media available.

▪ Another difficulty arises when trying to assess how far different media may be taken as propositional.

▪ If they have any influence at all, different media sources should influence their audiences in different ways.

▪ Time Warner is the biggest media conglomerate, with the broadest reach and opportunity for synergies across different media.

▪ The different media were fragmented, difficult to integrate.

electronic

▪ He left Macmillan in 1989 to establish his own consultancy and training practice, specialising in electronic information media.

▪ Human culture and human values are for the first time being shaped by a profit-maximizing electronic media.

▪ Within the field of electronic media, the film medium has the most universal appeal and impact.

▪ Television scarcity, compared to print, no longer provides a rationale to regulate electronic media while letting newspapers and magazines alone.

▪ The electronic media have already been affected by the economic problems.

▪ The electronic media is changing values and those values will in turn change the nature of our society.

▪ Furthermore, the electronic media are by their nature democratic.

▪ One of the harsh realities about the electronic media is that it chews up its stars as fast as it creates them.

local

▪ According to Whitehall officials, the local media suggested that the material was intended to help opposition parties or beleaguered white farmers.

▪ Their local media and local constituents will have more opportunities to watch them at work close up.

▪ Particularly interesting will be how rivalries are both conceived of by fans themselves, and represented in local and national media.

▪ According to the remaining local independent media sources, 20 civilians had been killed during August by the military.

▪ The following evening, the team is practicing for the benefit of the local media.

▪ As an additional service to clients, Henley endeavours to publicise findings in the international and local media.

▪ There was the support of the governor and the mayor, the local media and big and small businesses.

mass

▪ This is not entirely explained by huge increases in population, as is widely propagated by the mass media and widely believed.

▪ Those who say conventions have lost their meaning in this era of presidential primaries and mass media communications miss one thing.

▪ The state governments, of whatever party, attach great importance to the expansion of their own mass media facilities.

▪ First, talking politics is an active form of political participation; mass media exposure is relatively passive.

▪ The mass media, particularly the national mass media, pursue stories with great intensity for short periods only.

▪ The emotionally devastating effects of non-accidental injury, especially to children, has been receiving dramatic mass media coverage recently.

national

▪ Andy would like to see canoeing increasing a lot but it needs marketing outside the trade through the national media.

▪ Its conspicuous lack of charm took two major hits in the national media in the last month alone.

▪ Guidelines for making women visible in the national media will be developed and distributed to provincial offices and media organisations.

▪ The basic principle of diversity of media ownership and freedom of entry should serve as an essential guideline for national media policy.

▪ Particularly interesting will be how rivalries are both conceived of by fans themselves, and represented in local and national media.

▪ The couple has been mindful of the national media attention.

▪ Keeping the media happy Sometimes the needs of local and national media conflict.

new

▪ The local press came in curious gaggles, and the students eased shyly into their new incarnations as media darlings.

▪ At their introduction, new media have at first consistently been licensed and regulated by government.

▪ Using the methods offered by the new technical media, he must become a self-aware participant in the total apparatus of production.

▪ Fourth, the new media make it far more difficult for a government to control the information available to its citizens.

▪ In San Francisco such contenders as Wired magazine, the rattle-bearer of new media, cluster in an ill-defined sprawl.

▪ All new media have been born under the cloud of some form of lesser First Amendment protection.

▪ Concerns about growth in 2001 have hit companies from both the new and old media in recent weeks.

▪ Satjiv Chahil, formerly the vice president of entertainment and new media, will be senior vice president of corporate marketing.

other

▪ The use of other audio-visual media in library education should also be considered.

▪ Publicity is news about the organization or its products reported in the press and other media without charge to the organization.

▪ But there is no evidence that Mr Jackson’s popularity can be extended to other media, such as film.

▪ Some records may be transferred to other appropriate media at this phase.

▪ This may be a particular area where the records manager’s experience of other media and enabling litigation may be particularly valuable.

▪ We hope that the review will also invite individual submissions through your pages and other media avenues.

▪ Sometimes it makes sense to use a particular type of paper so that other media can be applied as well.

▪ Should the tank have any other filter media?

■ NOUN

attention

▪ While the outbreak directed media attention to pollution in the North Sea, ascribing the guilt to pollution was premature.

▪ And Feinstein, 62, has been aggressive in calling media attention to her bipartisanship.

▪ Although media attention remained fixed on events in London, they surely provided Mrs Thatcher’s government with its biggest shock.

▪ It was the kind of media attention that the Phil Gramm campaign had been praying for most of the presidential political season.

▪ In a month-long seat belt campaign during 1992, this group received special mention and considerable media attention.

▪ Except for a huge wave of media attention, the Great Solar Storm of April 1997 apparently has failed to make landfall.

▪ He deals much more with national issues rather than local ones and has received less media attention as a result.

▪ Before Sydney, her quest for five gold medals attracted a deluge of media attention.

campaign

▪ The media campaign is only a small part of a huge and impressive effort to get people to report their symptoms.

▪ But he said efforts that involve a mix of strategies-such as media campaigns and peer counseling-have proven effective in reducing the numbers.

▪ He maintains that their image as a bunch of violent thugs is a misleading byproduct of a sustained media campaign.

▪ In practice, both parties spend it on expensive media campaigns that promote their presidential nominees.

▪ Through a major media campaign it is seeking to obtain funds by raising public awareness of the museum’s past history.

▪ In practice, both parties use soft money to finance expensive media campaigns that promote their presidential candidates.

▪ Local advertising agencies will be hired to translate the strategy into a media campaign.

▪ By comparison, his own media campaign has been spartan.

company

▪ Together we are building the most exciting media company in the world.

▪ Giant media companies that were never allowed to buy on a scale they require could jump into the market.

▪ Time-Warner, the biggest media company in the world, owns Warner Bros.

▪ Some analysts think those problems may eventually transform Microsoft into a media company.

▪ Its regional press and magazine holdings went back some time but were not large enough to qualify it as a media company.

▪ Cable rates would be deregulated, and media companies could enlarge their holdings more easily.

▪ The media company is on a roll.

coverage

▪ People flocked to him in County Cavan and he became famous in Ireland with saturation media coverage.

▪ Caldwell thought media coverage might turn up some leads.

▪ But as the trouble escalates, media coverage concentrates on the riots themselves and not the injustice that caused them.

▪ Halloran’s and his co-workers’ explanation of why the media coverage took this form emphasises the importance of news values.

▪ They disliked his aggression, his finesse, his lack of respect for tradition, his obsession with media coverage.

▪ When there were fights at football matches there was no dramatic media coverage.

▪ Nevertheless, analyses of media coverage of disorder have consistently found more similarities than differences in media coverage.

event

▪ And the unveiling was a full-dress media event.

▪ This was a media event, created by her father.

▪ The Whitbread Race has deservedly become a media event.

▪ Marvin wanted it to be a media event.

▪ In this sense, it was the perfectly orchestrated media event.

group

▪ His move to a very much larger media group is understandable and we wish him well for the future.

▪ These reductions in the labour power required to produce newspapers inevitably impact on the cost structures of the media groups concerned.

▪ Established media groups like Hachette, publishers of Elle magazine, failed to make it a commercial success.

▪ Recent activity is explained by a 1 percent shareholding, built by Fininvest, a Milan-based media group run by Silvo Berlusconi.

▪ Entertainment and media group Chrysalis reports year-end figures tomorrow.

▪ So the temptation to use them, which can best be resisted by the media group, is great.

▪ But it is much more satisfactory to angle the basic release to suit the readership or audiences of the various media groups.

hype

▪ Some find the high degree of media hype that has surrounded publication slightly worrying.

▪ Self-absorbed media hype went only so far.

▪ Much of it is media hype.

▪ Another added that one of the purposes of the media hype was actually to deliberately confuse people.

interest

▪ Instead they illustrate better the shifting balance within conglomerates between one media interest and another and secondly, the trend toward internationalization.

▪ Her books are a bulwark against this explosion of razzle-dazzle media interest and current hipness.

▪ These changes, which were limited to the big club sides, will be examined later in relation to media interest in sport.

▪ Most have been funded by media interests.

▪ Police and straight media interest in the paper grew.

▪ Which is why the protestations of too much media interest ring a little hollow.

▪ Certainly it provoked wide media interest which continues today, and it remains a highly emotive issue.

item

▪ This is updated as the system works through the files to be offlined and copies them on to the media item.

▪ When a media item is to be mounted, its identifier will be displayed.

▪ According to the instruction, the Offline Operator should physically mount or dismount the media item from the specified media unit.

▪ M-F Media Failure — the media item has been previously reported as faulty.

▪ It involves any process appropriate to the media item from storing and restoring through to verification.

▪ The operation of the offline system can not be completely divorced from manual procedures associated with the offline media items.

▪ If all offline media items can be mounted on all offline units, the primary media items will be used.

library

▪ The excellent library media program has never been organized around the expertise or knowledge of just the library media specialist.

▪ The use of excellent planning techniques to develop more cost effective library media programs. 3.

▪ But the idea of library media specialists teaching and providing library media services to special learners is scary all the same.

▪ Good descriptors for any able library media specialist, too, are they not?

▪ The use of a national access network to deliver materials and services to classroom teachers and library media specialists. 2.

▪ The alert library media specialist will have recognized at once that mainstreaming is, after all, a kind of integration.

▪ The center took as an initial goal demonstrating the positive effect of good library media use in the teaching of special learners.

mainstream

▪ In the art world, if not in mainstream media and media theory, the hardware is seldom taken as given.

▪ Kritzer, however, said most of the mainstream media are shying away from it.

▪ It has refused to explain itself to the mainstream media, or to forge strong links with anyone outside the protest community.

▪ A single corporation should not be able to control all or even most of the mainstream media in any one market.

▪ In each election its percentage of the vote has risen despite vicious opposition from the economic elites and the mainstream media.

▪ The mainstream media are socking it to her.

▪ It can only be deduced that most young people learn about homosexuality from the negative and misinformed images in the mainstream media.

▪ Yet, the most frequent present day charge against the mainstream media still centers on their liberal bias.

news

▪ Critics credited big money and news media for the public apathy.

▪ The freedom of the news media is protected by strong constitutional safeguards, and the media can report almost anything about politics.

▪ Events of this sort are reported locally, but seldom picked up by national and international news media.

▪ This cosmological event was widely reported in the news media, in the wake of which I heard three paradigmatic responses.

▪ The government then publicizes the judgments of the panels through the news media, videotapes, leaflets, and local debates.

program

▪ The excellent library media program has never been organized around the expertise or knowledge of just the library media specialist.

▪ Special education programs are having a tremendous impact on the way schools, educators, and library media programs do their work.

▪ Readers will have noted the similarity of these efforts to those of an excellent library media program.

▪ An exemplary library media program would see and accept this same challenge.

▪ Remember, professionally speaking, there is here the exciting potential for greatly strengthening the teaching aspect of the library media program.

▪ Comparisons with the effective school library media program are again inescapable.

▪ One of its major components is a comprehensive library media program designed to meet their needs.

▪ Consequently, arbitrariness is one of the least of the components of the library media program atmosphere.

report

▪ Local media reports speak of at least 80 deaths.

▪ They will try to determine whether media reports of his arrest properly explained the incident.

▪ Like the divided map, the concentration on entrenched territorial divisions was largely a creation of media reports.

▪ He was, according to interviews and media reports, lonely and unbalanced.

▪ Even where the media report sightings of what are apparently other phenomena, they often turn out to be the same species.

▪ Here at home, recent hearings and growing media reports have begun to generate more interest in the issue.

▪ In January 1980 mining shares rose on the back of media reports of uranium finds.

▪ However, her position varied from one moment to the next, if the media reports can be believed.

specialist

▪ But the idea of library media specialists teaching and providing library media services to special learners is scary all the same.

▪ It is not what most library media specialists prepared themselves to do.

▪ The alert library media specialist will have recognized at once that mainstreaming is, after all, a kind of integration.

▪ Most library media specialists now accept the role for themselves that goes with this mission.

▪ But it is a skill to be learned and practiced by the teacher / library media specialist of the emotionally disturbed.

study

▪ Such an approach treads a thin line between the traditional pluralist and Marxist divide in media studies.

▪ Literature has a long history of feminist interest, but film and media studies are certainly as central to feminist cultural debates.

▪ Degrees such as media studies have enjoyed huge growth as universities have expanded the number of places to meet ambitious government targets.

▪ How much of those snapshots might a history of mass media study?

▪ Plans exist to extend the list of short courses to business studies, geography, history, media studies and home economics.

▪ The extra facilities allow the school to introduce media studies and make its own promotional videos.

▪ Courses in media studies at Britain’s universities and art colleges have increased.

■ VERB

use

▪ It uses multiple media data types.

▪ Agar gel and cellulose acetate are the more commonly used media in the routine clinical laboratory. 189.

▪ There is no simple procedure to determine the number of blocks which may be used by the media item.

▪ Caldwell continued using her media exposure to make the case a higher police priority.

▪ It uses the media to try to embarrass companies into putting pressure on their subsidiaries.

▪ Satellite communications have recently expanded the capacity of governments to use the media to communicate with other governments.

▪ This type of filter can be time-consuming to maintain, but allows you to use a lot of media effectively.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

movie/media/gambling etc mogul

▪ The movie moguls were taking it up.

▪ Under normal circumstances Chaplin may well have simply thrown the eminent movie mogul a mere passing glance of recognition.

the glare of publicity/the media/public scrutiny etc

the mass media

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

▪ Almost simultaneously, the media has stepped up its scrutiny of funding sources.

▪ But media lawyers said there are other possible avenues for mounting a renewed First Amendment attack on the ban.

▪ Few contemporary political strategies are conceived without considerable attention being paid to media considerations.

▪ Influential contacts, mostly media folk.

▪ International media outlets consistently bashed the organization, transportation and infrastructure problems of these Games.

▪ The newer, non-ionic contrast materials may be less likely to excite pancreatic inflammation than ionic media.

▪ The product of this interaction or bargaining is the media content to which the public at large attend.

▪ Traditionally, the library media program has looked beyond its own location for its resources, both human and material.

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Media can act as a noun and an adjective.

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Definition of media in the English dictionary

The definition of media in the dictionary is the means of communication that reach large numbers of people, such as television, newspapers, and radio. Other definition of media is of or relating to the mass media.

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Me·di·a

 (mē′dē-ə)

An ancient country of southwest Asia in present-day northwest Iran. Settled by an Indo-European people, it became part of the Assyrian Empire and was conquered c. 550 bc by Cyrus the Great, who added it to the Persian Empire.

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Me′di·an adj. & n.

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me·di·a ¹

 (mē′dē-ə)

n.

A plural of medium. See Usage Note at medium.

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me·di·a ²

 (mē′dē-ə)

n.

1. Linguistics See medial.

2. The middle, often muscular layer of the wall of a blood vessel.

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[Late Latin, from Latin, feminine of Latin medius, middle; see medium.]

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

media

(ˈmiːdɪə)

n

2. (Communications & Information) the means of communication that reach large numbers of people, such as television, newspapers, and radio

adj

(Communications & Information) of or relating to the mass media: media hype.

Usage: When media refers to the mass media, it is sometimes treated as a singular form, as in: the media has shown great interest in these events. Many people think this use is incorrect and that media should always be treated as a plural form: the media have shown great interest in these events

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media

(ˈmɛdɪə)

n, pl -diae (-dɪˌiː)

1. (Anatomy) the middle layer of the wall of a blood or lymph vessel

2. (Zoology) one of the main veins in the wing of an insect

3. (Phonetics & Phonology) phonetics

a. a consonant whose articulation lies midway between that of a voiced and breathed speech sound

b. a consonant pronounced with weak voice, as c in French second

[C19: from Latin medius middle]

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Media

(ˈmiːdɪə)

n

1. (Historical Terms) an ancient country of SW Asia, south of the Caspian Sea: inhabited by the Medes; overthrew the Assyrian Empire in 612 bc in alliance with Babylonia; conquered by Cyrus the Great in 550 bc; corresponds to present-day NW Iran

2. (Placename) an ancient country of SW Asia, south of the Caspian Sea: inhabited by the Medes; overthrew the Assyrian Empire in 612 bc in alliance with Babylonia; conquered by Cyrus the Great in 550 bc; corresponds to present-day NW Iran

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

me•di•a¹

(ˈmi di ə)

n.

2. (usu. with a pl. v.) the means of communication, as radio, television, newspapers, and magazines, with wide reach and influence.

adj.

3. pertaining to or concerned with the media: media research.

usage: media, like data, is the plural form of a word borrowed directly from Latin. The singular, medium, early developed the meaning “an intervening agency, means, etc.,” and was first applied to newspapers two centuries ago. In the 1920s media began to appear as a singular collective noun: The media is reporting on the debates. This singular, though often criticized, is now common.

me•di•a²

(ˈmi di ə)

n., pl. -di•ae (-diˌi)

1. the middle layer of an artery or lymphatic vessel.

2. a voiced stop, esp. in ancient Greek.

3. Entomol. a longitudinal vein in the middle portion of the wing of an insect.

[1835–45; < Latin, n. use of feminine singular of Latin medius central, mid¹]

Me•di•a

(ˈmi di ə)

n.

an ancient country in W Asia, S of the Caspian Sea, corresponding generally to NW Iran. Cap.: Ecbatana.

Random House Kernerman Webster’s College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.

Media

1. the practice among European newspapers of allowing space, usually at the bottom of a page or pages, for fiction, criticism, columnists, etc.
2. the practice of writing critical or familiar essays for the feuilleton pages. — feuilletonist, n.

language typical of journalists and newspapers or magazines, characterized by use of neologism and unusual syntax. Also called newspaperese.

1. the occupation of reporting, writing, editing, photographing, or broadcasting news.
2. the occupation of running a news organization as a business.
3. the press, printed publications, and their employees.
4. an academie program preparing students in reporting, writing, and editing for periodicals and newspapers. — journalist, n. — journalistic, adj.

1. a type of cathode-ray tube used in the reception of television images.
2. a recording of a television program on motion-picture film.

an apparatus for projecting sound and pictures by a combination of a phonograph and a kinetoscope.

an early apparatus for producing a moving picture. See also instruments. Cf. kinetophone.

journalese.

a person who publishes or writes for a periodical.

a form of journalism in which photographs play a more important part than written copy. — photojournalist, n.

1. the action, practice, or art of propagating doctrines, as in the Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge.
2. the deliberate spreading of information or ideas to promote or injure a cause, nation, etc. — propagandist, n. — propagandistic, adj.

1. the act or process of reporting news.
2. an account of a current or historical event, not appearing in conventional news media, written in a journalistic style.

the act of shocking or intent to shock, especially through the media; the practice of using startling but superficial efïects, in art, literature, etc., to gain attention. See also literary style; philosophy. — sensationalist, n.

-Ologies & -Isms. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.

media

Media is a noun, and it is also a plural form of another noun, medium.

1. ‘the media’

You can refer to television, radio, and newspapers as the media.

She refused to talk to the media.

It is usually regarded as correct to use a plural form of a verb with the media, but people often use a singular form.

The media are very powerful in influencing opinions.

The media was full of stories about the singer and her husband.

You can use a singular or plural form in conversation and in less formal writing, but you should use a plural form in formal writing.

2. ‘medium’

A medium is a way of expressing your ideas or communicating with people. The plural of medium is either mediums or media.

She is an artist who uses various mediums including photography and sculpture.

They advertise through a range of different media – radio, billboards, and the internet.

Collins COBUILD English Usage © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 2004, 2011, 2012

MEDIA

Definition of MEDIA

1. (noun)a means or instrumentality for storing or communicating information
2. (noun)the surrounding environment
3. (noun)an intervening substance through which signals can travel as a means for communication
4. (noun)(bacteriology) a nutrient substance (solid or liquid) that is used to cultivate micro-organisms
5. (noun)a liquid with which pigment is mixed by a painter
6. (noun)(biology) a substance in which specimens are preserved or displayed
7. (noun)an intervening substance through which something is achieved
8. (noun)a state that is intermediate between extremes; a middle position
9. (noun)someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead
10. (noun)(usually plural) transmissions that are disseminated widely to the public
11. (noun)an occupation for which you are especially well suited

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