| 英文摘要
| Parents and teachers form WeChat group to maintain communication. The Parent-Teacher WeChat group makes communication more convenient but also brings many problems. How the technology changed this small group communication? It was the problem consciousness of this study. This study took a Parent-Teacher WeChat group of C primary school as a case. A WeChat ethnography was administered to explore the formulation and operation of the dynamics in the Parent-Teacher WeChat group by group dynamics. This study conducted interviews to further understand the interaction between parents and teachers. This study also discussed the influence of the small group communication by the technology. The results showed that the formation of dynamics in the group is related with group roles, group status, group norms, group culture and group attraction from a macro perspective. The operation of dynamics in the group is based on operational activities, maintenance activities, regulatory activities and individual system, member system, group system, group-as-a-whole system from a micro perspective. Parents and teachers communicated with each other by the WeChat group and through some strategies. They made group decisions by majority decision-making, authoritative decision-making and minority decision-making; also used some strategies to solve group polarization, group think, group impasse and group conflict. All of that also formed group morale, affected themselves and offline group. The Parent-Teacher WeChat group made the interaction more complicated than before. Technology has played an important role in the development of online group and affected the people, interpersonal interactions, small group communication. Everyone should have a critical thinking about that. |
