media, new media

Media

• 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 interaction
• MEDIA Programme, a European Union initiative to support the European audiovisual sector.

New media
is a broad term in media studies that emerged in the latter part of the 20th century. For example, new media holds out a possibility of on-demand access to content any time, anywhere, on any digital device, as well as interactive user feedback, creative participation and community formation around the media content. Another important promise of new media is the "democratization" of the creation, publishing, distribution and consumption of media content. Another aspect of new media is the real-time generation of new, unregulated content.
Most technologies described as "new media" are digital, often having characteristics of being manipulated, networkable, dense, compressible, and interactive. Some examples may be the Internet, websites, computer multimedia, computer games, CD-ROMS, and DVDs. New media does not include television programs, feature films, magazines, books, or paper-based publications – unless they contain technologies that enable digital interactivity.