N/A / Thailand has experienced political instability since 2005 until present.
The political conflict has divided people into two factions, the supporters and the
opponents. First faction is the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD).
On the other side, the political movements of the anti-government faction are led by the
People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) and People’s Democratic Reform Committee
(PDRC).
Social media such as Facebook, Line and YouTube have become the
new tools for communication which are used to create change in social movements and
political movements around the world. The new tools have revolutionized the social
movements’paradigm and theory.
This research thus aimed to study social media by focusing on the
relationship between Facebook platform and Thai political movements. Both qualitative
and quantitative methodologies were applied in this research as the tool to find an
answer of the main question. The total amount of 1,500 survey questionnaire samples
were distributed to respondents nationwide, and Pearson’s chi-squared test was applied
to examine the relationship between social media (Facebook) and political movements.
Finally, a result of the study showed that Thai people had different
democratic ideologies, and that conflict of ideas had been accumulated and turned into
the bedrock of political turmoil in this era. Moreover, it was found that Facebook was
an amplifier, connector, and accelerator for political movement. Having Facebook as
the new communication tool, Thai people in the society were encouraged to participate
political movements rather than individual group or class movement presented in Thai
history before. Social media such as Facebook linked cyber space and public space
together through the new method of idea and information distribution and people
mobilization. This motivated citizen to demonstrate on stress occupying government
buildings and department stores. Therefore, political reconciliation should be concerned
with democracy from the Thai society perspective rather than the Western one.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:CHENGCHI/G1002655081 |
| Creators | 那培農 |
| Publisher | 國立政治大學 |
| Source Sets | National Chengchi University Libraries |
| Language | 英文 |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Rights | Copyright © nccu library on behalf of the copyright holders |
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