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TERM OF THE DAY media 1. Communication channels through which news, entertainment, education, data, or promotional messages are disseminated. Media includes everybroadcasting and narrowcasting medium such as newspapers, magazines, TV, radio, billboards, direct mail, telephone, fax, and internet. Media is the plural of medium and can take a plural or singular verb, depending on the sense intended. 2. Data storage material divided into three broad categories according to therecording method: (1) Magnetic, such as diskettes, disks, tapes, (2) Optical, such as microfiche, and (3) Magneto-Optical, such as CDs and DVDs. Learn more about this term Usage Example Due to the growing popularity of the internet and social sites such as Facebook and Twitter, social media is now an important channel that allows messages to be spread to the public.

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