'GoogleZon' the future of media technology

Since the first newspaper published the media world as people have known it has changed, particuarly over the last decade, we now have the internet with sites such as Google and Amazon the internet has revolutionised the way the media is published.
Since they were published the newspapers have been slowly depreciating, there is no longer a real need for newspapers, now with the simple click of a ouse you can get onto a news page on the internet and check the local an worldwide news whenever you want and because the internet isnt a hard copy like newspapers the latest news is added constantly meaning that you dont have to wait untill the next day to get 'todays news' but you can pick it up whenever u want online at such sites as www.bbc.co.uk/news.
A lot of the newspaper companies have picked up on this an also run a web page as well as their newspaper.

New sites such as Blogger have enabled the public to create their own media, they can comment on the news allowing the people to have their say about the news.
The media is changing, maybe not for the good but never the less it is changing, the media is more personalised with everyone allowing to make their own blogs news can be whatever you want it to be. A lot of the sites are run by what their users are commenting allowing a lot of personalisation of the news.
The big web giants such as Microsoft and Google have began buying up a lot of the smaller companies like blogger and tivo, this allows them to broadcast their news on a much wider scale reaching a lot more people and getting a lot more people to participate in their news.
There is a worry that the media will become too personalised and news will be overun with sensationalist stories and personalised (biased) stories with the news never being impartial, others would argue that the news is already in such a state that a lot of papers are too biased and populist, more trying to win over the people and attract consumers ( more money) i think this could possibly be said about some of the 'Populist Tabloids' like The Sun.

music downloads

there are numerous ways to download your favourite music, whether they are legal or illegal is down to the person who is making the download, a very popular download site is iTunes www.apple.com/itunes this is the most popular site for music downloads worldwide, although the survey has not taken in to account the illegal download sites such as Napster and such downloadable programs as Limewire these are predominantly very popular but they do not hold the same variety or amount of music as iTunes or other legal downloadable sites.
the cost of a single on iTunes is on average £0.75 with an album averaging £7.95 this doesn't seem much, and it is primarily to cover the licensing costs that iTunes has to pay the music industry, but compared to the offer of free downloads at no price at all a lot of downloaders choose the cheaper option over the 'legal' downloads.
i have used a number of these systems but i found that iTunes is the best, it is simple to use very easy to search for your desired music and with a wide range of tastes and cultural music it is my personal choice, it is quite expensive but as i can afford the cost i find it is a lot easier to use than other download options, as well as the fact that it is legal which always helps!

My Area Of Study

i have decided on the area of study i will be doing.
i have chosen to do the music industry and the internet, as i think this is the topic i have the most knowledge and understanding with.
i will be focusing on the way that music is downloaded and sold across the internet, i will also be looking at the the way music has changed over time.
i will also look at different kinds of music.