Many Arab media centers and research institutes today are producing copious amounts of scholarship on the subject of media activism, the use of digital media and its interpretations, media policy, political representations in new media, and other social investigations. In this roundtable discussion, we would like to define, more clearly, the complicated make-up of 21st century Arab media. How does the scale of digital media, its ease of transfer and deletion, its hypervisuality, its reach across languages and wide public access inform the vibrancy and proliferation of a larger array of 'Media' including traditional sources such as print journalism, television, cartoons and graffiti from the Arab world? How are media platforms like Virtual Gaza, the Electronic Intifada, R-Shief, or even more traditional outlets such as Arab, Media, and Society mediated by the formal aspects of their digital composition? The emergence of digital media has revolutionized the functions of authorship, knowledge production and communication, and the processing of information in a manner that demands attention be paid to the medium as agent. Integrating art, technology, and reporting in this artistic production, the digital medium itself functions as a creative and dynamic producer, not just reporter, of knowledge. In this discussion, we would like to investigate how visual studies, software studies, social computing, and media arts practice can contribute the study of media and technology in the Arab world, perhaps offering openings to better understanding of the literature published on blogs, social networking sites, Twitter feeds, YouTube, and other new media. This digital form, by its nature, attracts non-hierarchical knowledge production. Ideally, this conversation would take place in a roundtable discussion in order to work towards creating a new authoritative but participatory role in an on-going conversation among networked publics--one that resonates with web culture and the co-production of knowledge. Possible topics for discussion would include: 1- The problems and failures of digital media productions 2- Case-study examples of public media platforms and digital environments 3- Education and digital literacy in the Arab world 4- Archiving and national memory as a growing field in digital media 5- Digital methodology as it informs virtual political space