Hi Muhammad, Here's a short list off the top of my head of scholars at American universities who do work in CMDA and/or internet socioling: Nancy Baym - University of Kansas Susan Herring - Indiana University John Paolillo - Indiana University Crispin Thurlow - University of Washington Joseph Walther - Cornell University There're a number of other researchers in various departments (e.g. communication, english, informatics, linguistics) who do work in these areas as well, so your best bet might just be to take a look at a bibliography of CMC to see who specifically is doing the kind of work you're interested in. There are a bunch of those floating around online, or you could check these two: http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/jbw29/docs/471_Things_to_Read.html http://www.polyglotconspiracy.net/cmcbib.htm Best of luck! Joshua Joshua Raclaw - PhD student Department of Linguistics Culture, Language & Social Practice University of Colorado at Boulder http://ucsu.colorado.edu/~raclaw/ Quoting Muhammad Abdul-Mageed <mumageed@yahoo.com>: * Dear all, * * I am a linguistics researcher from Egypt. I have been awarded a 4-6 years * scholarship to get both the MA and Ph.D. degrees. I am interested in * Computer-mediated Discourse Analysis and sociolinguistics. I have worked out * certain research plans. I am now trying to join a US univesity by Spring * 2007. My government will cover all tuition fees, and all other finacial * requirements. I have a high GPA and my TOEFL score is 273 (i.e. 643 in PBT). * I would appreciate it if you suggest me a good university or a certain * professor. Also, if any professor in the group would be interested I would be * grateful if he/she writes to my own e-mail address. I would be ready to * provide more details about myself and my research proposal(s). * * Thank you in advance * * * Muhammad Mostafa Abdul-Mageed, * Dept. of English, * Kafr El-Sheikh Faculty of Education, * Kafr El-Sheikh, * University of Tanta, * Egypt * Postal Code: 33516 * * * --------------------------------- * Talk is cheap. Use Yahoo! Messenger to make PC-to-Phone calls. Great rates * starting at 1¢/min. * _______________________________________________ * The air-l@listserv.aoir.org mailing list * is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org * Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: * http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org * * Join the Association of Internet Researchers: * http://www.aoir.org/ *