group and organizational concepts
applications and contexts
concepts
When we meet together, face to face or online, in small- or medium-sized assemblies, associations, bands, clubs, cliques, and the like, we engage in group communication. As members of groups, we permit a part of our identity and goals to exist as part of a small collective, and the convergence of these parts of our individual lives gives the group a coherent meaning, boundary, purpose, structure, and norms. [Source: Encyclopedia of Communication Theory; Group Communication Theories]
group communication theories