TA Brainstorming areas to look at for media paper

Media and technology

media and society

media and stories and culture

media and customs: influence on manners from year to year and decade to decade

media and families: communications, traditions

media and politics: youtube

sub areas:

publishing
books, magazines, news, braille, rebel newspapers in China
radio
news, opinion,
TV
news, opinion
cinema
documentary, narrative, art
Theater (again is this media?)
Art
painting, installations, architecture (is that really media?)
music
recording, iTunes, classical and pops live performance,
gaming
driving the research in computer science and simulation, multiplayer, role-playing, simulation
internet
youtube, blogs, news, reference, wiki, collaboration, Picasa/Photobucket
Cell Phones
texting, photographs, rings...
Financial Exchanges
Stock Market, Business, Effects of internet on functioning

Other areas of interest
How media affects opinion and portrayal of other areas (research, politics, business)
Taxes, refunds
Attitudes towards knowledge and social networks
Trust