Electronic media is media that uses electricity, including television, radio, the Internet, fax, CD-ROMs, DVDS and online video streaming. It includes any medium that uses the digital or electronic encoding of information. Most new media forms are digital media, but electronic media can be analog electronic data or digital electronic data.

The earliest form of electronic media was the telegraph in 1795. The telephone came in 1849, followed by the radio in 1897 and the Internet in 1963. Electronic media examples also include neon, LED, computer monitors, films, RAM, barcodes, audio recordings and video recordings. Electronic media has many uses including journalism, news, marketing, education, engineering, digital art, virtual reality, entertainment, transportation and military purposes.