[Air-l] IM and SMS: Linguistic Analysis

I'm embarking on a linguistic comparison of the actual texts of IMs and SMSs, especially among high school and college students. Is anyone doing analysis of this sort? I'll be working with Rich Ling (at Telenor), who has been analyzing Norwegian SMSs, but I'm wondering if anyone else has actual IM or SMS corpora they have been looking at linguistically (or that could be used for that purpose). Thanks, Naomi Naomi S. Baron Professor of Linguistics American University Washington, DC 20016-8045