Research paper proposition

Since I began skateboarding I've been fascinated with the rise and fall in popularity that the sport has endured, from it's roots as a hobby alongside the hula hoop to it's rise and fall in the 60's and 70's then the revival in the early 80's, downfall in the late 80's, being re-defined in the early 90's then booming in popularity in 2000 to where it is at today. I'd like to find an artistic link between the fluctuation in it's popularity and it's saturation in the media now where lots of technology is involved in the indujsty.