Nick, The most complete listing of "research" related to NLP that I have found is at: http://www.nlp.de/research/index.html My caution would be to read with a critical eye as some of the items have questionable methodology. Nonetheless there are some interesting items here. I don't recall anything on mass comm., per se, but there may be something there. Happy hunting! Todd Sloane PS Regarding what issue would you like anecdotal evidence?