# mediology

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. An interdisciplinary approach to the study of culture, created by Régis Debray in 1979, that pays specific attention to human symbolic activity and to technology, especially as a medium of cultural transmission.
2. The study of mass media and its influence.
3. The use of mass media.

## Etymology
Borrowed from French médiologie.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/mediology