Media center (or media centre) may refer to:
- Audio-visual software application or a dedicated media player device for such use
- Home theater PC, media computer designed for living-room or Home cinema use
- Home cinema, also commonly referred to as a home theater or home media room
- Windows Media Center, Microsoft PC software application for Home Theater
- MediaPortal Media Center, a free alternative to Windows Media Center
- JRiver Media Center, a multimedia application for Windows computers by JRiver
- XBMC Media Center, cross-platform software formerly named Xbox Media Center
- Portable Media Center
- MediaImpact Media Center
- Western Digital Media Center
- Sally Project (Touchscreen Application Framwork) OpenSource software, designed for touchscreen Windows machines
- Journalism
- International Broadcast Centre at a major sports event such as the Olympic Games
- Independent Media Center or Indymedia
- RSV Media Center
- Women's Media Center
- Women Media Center
- International Middle East Media Center
- Evanston Community Media Center
- San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center
- Librarianship
- Hybrid library area storing audio or visual material rather than books
- Civic Media Center
- Keio Media Centers (Libraries)
- Consortium of College and University Media Centers
Famous quotes containing the words media and/or center:
“One can describe a landscape in many different words and sentences, but one would not normally cut up a picture of a landscape and rearrange it in different patterns in order to describe it in different ways. Because a photograph is not composed of discrete units strung out in a linear row of meaningful pieces, we do not understand it by looking at one element after another in a set sequence. The photograph is understood in one act of seeing; it is perceived in a gestalt.”
—Joshua Meyrowitz, U.S. educator, media critic. “The Blurring of Public and Private Behaviors,” No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior, Oxford University Press (1985)
“Children can’t be a center of life and a reason for being. They can be a thousand things that are delightful, interesting, satisfying, but they can’t be a wellspring to live from. Or they shouldn’t be.”
—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)