The Descent of Pluto: Interactive dynamics, specialisation and reciprocity of roles in a Wikipedia debate

A review of technologies for collaborative online information seeking: On the contribution of collaborative argumentation

“…For instance, in the context of online information behavior, knowledge databases (such as Wikipedia) that were generated collaboratively by communities can be used by others; to these other users, it an outcome of the collaboration of former users. At the same time, these other users can also be a part of the collaborative process, which might lead to evolved knowledge databases (e.g., Détienne et al 2016 ). Thus, here the collaboration is between information seekers who seek, evaluate, and use information collaboratively.…”

Les forums virtuels : ressource pour le développement des pratiques et du bien-être des professionnels

“…93 L'étude a permis de mettre en évidence des facteurs qui permettent la conversion des capacités d'agir en pouvoir d'agir (Fernagu-Oudet, 2012 (Barcellini, Détienne, & Burkhardt, 2014 ;Détienne, Baker, Fréard, Barcellini, Denis, & Quignard, 2016), est une trace de la structuration de la communauté. De nouveaux collectifs se forment au sein de ces espaces, les participants se reconnaissent (pseudonyme), ce qui leur permet de maintenir dans le temps des échanges, voire de passer à des échanges dans le « réel » (comme c'est le cas dans d'autres communautés en ligne, e.g.…”

Knowing, Remembering, and Relating to Others Online: A Commentary

“…Research is described which shows that selective remembering online relates to (among other factors) the degree of coherence between information and the “working virtual self,” or “online identity” of the produced and/or consumer, understood, for example, in terms of personality traits such as “extravert.” Such online identities are also crucial in shared online workspaces, developed within the “open” movement, such as Wikipedia, where knowledge has to be co‐constructed and reified in the form of a text available to the whole world. In an analysis of Wikipedia discussions ‘‘behind’’ texts, we showed (Détienne, Baker, Fréard et al., ; Détienne, Baker, Vanhille, & Mougenot, ) that, notwithstanding the policy of openness to all contributors and the possibility of anonymity, participants in fact negotiate interactively the images of themselves and of others as being more or less competent. Such negotiations often lead to interpersonal conflicts, including insults.…”

“…Such online identities are also crucial in shared online workspaces, developed within the "open" movement, such as Wikipedia, where knowledge has to be co-constructed and reified in the form of a text available to the whole world. In an analysis of Wikipedia discussions ''behind'' texts, we showed (D etienne, Baker, Fr eard et al, 2016;D etienne, Baker, Vanhille, & Mougenot, 2016) that, notwithstanding the policy of openness to all contributors and the possibility of anonymity, participants in fact negotiate interactively the images of themselves and of others as being more or less competent. Such negotiations often lead to interpersonal conflicts, including insults.…”

“…Our theoretical approach is psychological, linguistic, and interactionist , in that it focuses on analyzing the processes by which meanings are co‐created in social, symbolic, interpersonal interactions. Second, many of our situations of study involve computer mediation (e.g., discussions underlying controversial Wikipedia texts: Détienne, Baker, Fréard et al., ; Détienne, Baker, Vanhille, & Mougenot, ); but in this case, technology is not considered as a simply “add‐on” to already preformed activities, but rather as something that transforms activities over long timescales, within a process of appropriation of tools, in the Vygotskian sense of the term. In sum, we study complex collaborative epistemic activities involving technology mediation, focusing on the processes of meaning‐making in interpersonal interaction.…”