If someone were to look back on this time periodA specific historic time and context of an art, craft or design form objectively from the future, they would be able to observe the emergence or evolution perhaps of a number of new mediaDifferent materials used by artists, such as paint, charcoal, clay and thread. Media is the plural of MEDIUM. In this context, it refers to the... production practices that rely upon digital appropriation as their foundation.
Digital here refers to digital technologies – 1s and 0s, interchangeable, malleable, networked, modular, as opposed to analogue – specific to the medium, difficult to mix and match, fixed.