Media (communication)

Media, in communications, are the tools used to deliver information or data.

It includes mass media such as newspapers, photography, cinema, broadcasting (radio and television) and advertising.

v t e Media and human factors
Cognitive psychology Externality Evolutionary psychology Behavioral modernity Cognition Mismatch Media studies Social psychology Media psychology
Media practices	Infotainment Media manipulation Propaganda Public relations Pink-slime journalism Yellow journalism Betteridge's law of headlines Gatekeeping "If it bleeds, it leads" Human-interest story Junk food news Least objectionable program Soft media Media bias Missing white woman syndrome News values Sensationalism Hot take Spiking Tabloid television
Attention	Attention economy Attention inequality Attention management Attention span Chumbox Clickbait Cognitive miser Low information voter Digital zombie Phubbing Doomscrolling Human multitasking Media multitasking Mobile phones and driving safety Smartphones and pedestrian safety Texting while driving Influence-for-hire Infodemic Information explosion Information overload Information pollution Information–action ratio One weird trick Rage farming Screen time Binge-watching Television consumption Sticky content
Cognitive bias/ Conformity	Availability cascade Availability heuristic Bandwagon effect Confirmation bias Crowd psychology Mobbing Moral panic Mean world syndrome Negativity bias Peer pressure Social-desirability bias Social influence bias Spiral of silence
Digital divide/ Political polarization	Algorithmic radicalization Youth Echo chamber Fake news website Post-truth politics United States Filter bubble Knowledge divide Knowledge gap hypothesis Political polarization in the United States Social media use in politics United States 2016 U.S. presidential election 2020 U.S. presidential election
Related topics	Computer rage Criticism of Facebook 2021 Facebook company files leak Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal Criticism of Netflix Cultural impact of TikTok Digital media use and mental health Effects of violence in mass media Fascination with death Griefer Mass shooting contagion Psychological effects of Internet use Sealioning Social aspects of television Social bot Social impact of YouTube Technophilia Neophile Technophobia Violence and video games

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