The relative research on small group communication were mostly focus on behavior level which is mainly about the observation on how personal quality, social status, and character interplay affect the small group communication, and hardly any comparative analysis has taken place on the factors such as data and information level. That is to say, the research on the level of data content, data structure and proposition that produced and resulted from the process of small group communication is not so common so far. Therefore, this study focusing on whether the small group communication shows different information structure due to various types of task (i.e. Brainstorming vs group decision making), and the reason why different information structures appear. This study is based on the method of small group experimental observation, and non-participant observation. By putting the factors of "knowledge background of participant, experiment environment and discussion time" under control, the observation will aim at the interaction process of group communication when the same experiment participates in different tasks. This study shows that different types of task do result in different information structure. When doing brainstorming, the group communication process has developed a more abundant, diverge and revolving proposition, while the group communication process of doing group decision making shows a rather single, revolving and constrained proposition. This study will not only be useful for the further study on small group communication, but also help to systemize the research on promoting collective idea.
中文關鍵詞
小團體傳播，任務團體，訊息結構，腦力激盪，團體決策
英文關鍵詞
small group communication, task group, information structure, brain storming, group decision making