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Media ethics
Media ethics, also called journalism ethics in its core form, is the field of applied ethics covering journalism, public relations, media marketing, and entertainment; defined by voluntary codes such as the SPJ's four principles, UNESCO frameworks, and self-regulation rather than law.
Media franchise
Media franchise (multimedia franchise): a collection of media sharing a storyworld, with derivative works and licensed IP from an original fiction. Covers transmedia management, Hollywood franchise-era shifts, and franchise economics.
Media freedom in Russia
Media freedom in Russia: constitutional and 1991 media-law guarantees of free information coexist with wartime censorship laws, Roskomnadzor blocking, foreign-agent designations, journalist imprisonment, and mass exile of independent outlets; RSF ranks Russia 172nd of 180 in 2026.
Media gateway
A media gateway is a network element that converts voice, fax, video, or data between dissimilar networks, most commonly circuit-switched telephone networks and packet-switched IP networks.
Media literacy
Media literacy: ability to access, analyze, evaluate, and create media content; part of UNESCO's media and information literacy (MIL). Meta-analyses of interventions show positive effects (d=.37; g=0.53 for fake news assessment), with EU legal requirements under the AVMSD.
Media manipulation
Media manipulation: the sociotechnical practice of influencing public discourse through deceptive or unfair means, related to propaganda, disinformation, and influence operations, distinct from top-down media control, with documented state cases and mixed evidence of persuasive effects.
Media market
A media market, also known as a designated market area or television market, is a geographic area where people receive the same local TV stations, measured as one audience.
Media Matters for America
Media Matters for America (MMFA), founded May 3, 2004 by David Brock, is a 501(c)(3) progressive media watchdog monitoring conservative misinformation; known for Fox News research, the 2023 X Corp. lawsuit, and 2025 FTC injunction.
Media Player Classic
Media Player Classic, also known as Guliverkli, is a free, open-source media player for Windows created by Gabest in 2003 and best known through its MPC-HC fork.
Media proprietor
Media proprietor: an individual or entity owning media outlets such as newspapers, broadcasters, or online news services; also called media mogul. Covers ownership forms (state, family, trust, corporate), concentration, regulation, and effects on editorial content.
Media Regio
Media Regio is a large IAU-named regio on Jupiter's volcanic moon Io, adopted in 1979, about 2,654 km across, centered at 8.65°N, 59.43°W, named for Media from the Greek Io myth.
Media Research Center
Media Research Center (MRC): American conservative media watchdog founded October 1, 1987 by L. Brent Bozell III; 501(c)(3) based in Virginia; runs NewsBusters, CNSNews, Free Speech America; led since May 2025 by David Bozell.
Media studies
Media studies is the academic study of mass media (newspapers, TV, film, internet) as texts, institutions, technologies, and audiences. Also called communication research in the US; institutionalized mid-20th century, notably via Britain's Birmingham CCCS and US effects research.
Media Transfer Protocol
The Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) is a USB file-transfer protocol created by Microsoft as extensions to PTP and standardized in 2008; it is Android's default since version 4.0.
Media type
A media type, formerly called a MIME type, is a standardized label indicating a file's format, written as type and subtype such as text/html, and standardized in RFC 6838.
Media-independent interface
The media-independent interface (MII) is a standardized IEEE 802.3 connection between an Ethernet MAC sublayer and a physical layer device, allowing one MAC to support various media and speeds.
MediaCityUK
MediaCityUK, also called MediaCity, is a media, digital and technology development at Salford Quays, Greater Manchester, opened in 2011, anchored by the BBC, ITV and the University of Salford, with ten TV studios and over 250 businesses.
Mediacorp
Mediacorp, also known as Media Corporation of Singapore, is Singapore's state-owned media conglomerate, wholly owned by Temasek Holdings, operating six TV channels, 11 radio stations, and CNA.
MediaFire
MediaFire is an American file hosting and cloud storage service founded in 2006 in The Woodlands, Texas, with over 150 million monthly users sharing files through links.
Medial axis transform
The medial axis transform (MAT) is a shape representation describing an object by the centers of its maximally inscribed balls and their radii, introduced by Harry Blum in 1967.
Medial branch block
A medial branch block is a diagnostic injection of local anesthetic onto the nerves supplying spinal facet joints, testing whether those joints are the source of back or neck pain.
Medial collateral ligament
Medial collateral ligament (MCL), or tibial collateral ligament: broad knee ligament from the medial femoral epicondyle to the tibia, the primary restraint to valgus stress and the most commonly injured knee ligament, usually treated non-operatively.
Medial maxillectomy
Medial maxillectomy is a surgical procedure removing the medial maxillary sinus wall, lateral nasal wall, and ethmoid sinuses to treat sinonasal tumors such as inverted papilloma.
Mediala
Mediala (Медиала) was a Serbian art group founded in 1957 in Belgrade by Leonid Šejka, Miro Glavurtić, Olja Ivanjicki, and others, pursuing fantastic figurative painting opposed to Yugoslav modernism.
MediaMath
MediaMath was a New York programmatic advertising technology company founded in 2007 that built a demand-side platform for buying digital ads, filing for bankruptcy in 2023.
Median
The median, also called the median average, is the middle value of an ordered data set and the 50th percentile, one of three common measures of central value.
Median (geometry)
A median of a triangle is the line segment joining a vertex to the midpoint of the opposite side. Each triangle has three medians, meeting at the centroid.
Median absolute deviation
The median absolute deviation (MAD) is a robust measure of statistical dispersion, computed as the median of absolute deviations from the data's median, resisting distortion by outliers.
Median arcuate ligament syndrome
Median arcuate ligament syndrome (MALS, Dunbar syndrome) is a rare disorder where the diaphragm's median arcuate ligament compresses the celiac artery and celiac plexus, causing postprandial abdominal pain, food fear, and weight loss; treated by surgical ligament release with 70-80% success.
Median barrier
A median barrier is a longitudinal barrier between opposing traffic streams on a divided highway, built as flexible cable, semi-rigid metal-beam, or rigid concrete to prevent cross-median crashes.