[Corpora-List] Query about Internet corpora (different text types)

[Christine Amling]

Hello everyone.
My name is Christine Amling and I am a master's student at the 
university of Mainz. At the moment I am working on my master's paper 
which is about the distribution and usage of the so-called "New 
Quotative" be like in Internet contexts 
(http://martina.lampert-mainz.de/belike.php ) and for this purpose I 
need an Internet corpus. The study aims to analyze different text types 
and at the moment I want to look at message boards, Twitter, IRC chat 
and blogs. If possible also Instant Messaging, but access is restricted.
My problem is that I don't find any valid IRC chat data and I was 
wondering if there is already an existing corpus about that, but in 
general I would be thankful for all kinds of information anybody has on 
Internet text types and registers. (Instant Messaging corpora would be 
appreciated as well - I know that there is study from Jones & Schiefflin 
2009, is there any way to access the corpus they used?)
Thank you very much
Christine

(I already sent this mail once, but from the wrong address. I hope this 
one gets through. Thanks in advance for your patience.)

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