Of these I think Reid and Reid http://www.160characters.org/documents/SocialEffectsOfTextMessaging.pdf is the one which interests me most. The different attitudes of those who prefer to text to those who prefer talk are explored. Some are a bit obvious but it opens up a very interesting field of non-trivial study in this area. The extent to which texting and Yahoo/MSN/ICQ messaging has replaced and complemented the face to face discourse of pupils in Secondary School in the UK is phenomenal. There is also an issue raised in discussion between teachers of bullying using text and some research on this would be interesting and useful. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.5 - Release Date: 03/02/2005