Message du troisi{è}me type : irruption d'un tiers dans un dialogue en ligne
This provides insights into multiparty online communication dynamics for researchers and platform designers, though it appears incremental in analyzing existing data.
The study analyzed over 300,000 Wikipedia talk page threads in French to investigate how discussions with more than two participants unfold, specifically examining the role and lexical characteristics of a third participant's intervention in existing two-person exchanges.
Our study focuses on Wikipedia talk pages, from a global perspective analyzing contributors' behaviors in online interactions. Using a corpus comprising all Wikipedia talk pages in French, totaling more than 300,000 discussion threads, we examine how discussions with more than two participants (multiparty conversation) unfold and we specifically investigate the role of a third participant's intervention when two Wikipedians have already initiated an exchange. In this regard, we concentrate on the sequential structure of these interactions in terms of articulation among different participants and aim to specify this third message by exploring its lexical particularities, while also proposing an initial typology of the third participant's message role and how it aligns with preceding messages.