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1.3.5 Technical messages

WhatsApp sometimes generates messages when something happens in a chat. If, for example, a user leaves a group, the message can be Peter left or Peter hat die Gruppe verlassen. In order to get one wording for these messages, we encoded them, e.g. actionQuserOUT.

This results in the following values for the field msg_type:

  • actionQiconDEL: the avatar was deleted
  • actionQiconUPD: the avatar was changed
  • actionQsubjUPD: the name of a group was updated
  • actionQuerIN: a speaker was added to a group
  • actionQuserOUT: a speaker was removed or removed themselves
  • actionQuserREM: Meta text about a speaker in a group chat

The other options in this field are self-explanatory or mentioned above: content, encrypted, media, no consent

We also encoded messages in which we made changes, e.g. if we removed media files.

The following codes exist in the corpus in the field "tok":

  • mediaQremoved: for media that we removed
  • emptyQmsg: an empty message
  • encryptedQmsg: some informants encrypted their messages
  • systemQspk53: says very generally, that speaker 53 did something, e.g. changed the title, joined the group etc.

If you want more information about what speaker 53 did in the above example, you have to query the field , which knows the following options:

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