Media is any sort of information that can be read, watched, or heard by people. Common non-electronic media include books, newspapers, voices, musical instruments. Digital media refers to media that is represented as a computer file (in bits and bytes). Media in this sense is different from media in the sense that writing and television are media for delivering information, although the line becomes blurred with the common reference to hard drives as "storage media," so-called because they are a medium that stores information. However, we are not talking about that sort of media, but rather the media that can be stored on a hard drive.
Examples
Common digital media include music files (mp3's), video files, e-books, email, and digital photographs.
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