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    Social Media and Thailand’s Struggle over Public Space

    Ganjanakhundee, Supalak | June 2020
    Abstract
    This paper looks into social media as a public sphere, where people individually or collectively express, discuss, share and deliberate on information, ideas, views and opinions. The concept of the public sphere as advanced by the German intellectual Jürgen Habermas refers to a utopia in which people can address public issues without the interference of state or capital. In his own words, Habermas said, “Les hommes, private gentlemen or die Privatleute made up the public not just in the sense that power and prestige of public office were held in suspense; economic dependencies also in principle had no influence. Laws of the market were suspended as were laws of the state.” For Habermas, the mass media, and notably the press, were a public sphere in appearance only.4 They were more or less influenced, interfered with and restricted by the state and their owners. While the concept of the public sphere has been modified and applied in different ways to explain social movements and the mass media, this paper puts it into the Thai context to examine the interplay between the government of Prime Minister Prayut and media users, in a situation where the former wants to restrict if not fully control that sphere, and where the latter try to expand it for their own reasons.
    Citation
    Ganjanakhundee, Supalak. 2020. Social Media and Thailand’s Struggle over Public Space. © ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/12159.
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    2335-6677
    Keywords
    Microelectronics industry
    Electronic industries
    Digital electronics
    Microelectronics
    Commerce and Industry
    Intra-Industry Trade
    Large Scale Industry
    Labor
    Technical Evaluation
    Telecommunication Companies
    Communication Industry
    Mass Communication
    Telecommunications Industry
    Telecommunications
    Satelites
    Political Leadership
    Public Administration
    Business Ethics
    Electronic Government
    Online Government
    Assessing Corporate Governance
    Corporate Governance Reform
    Governance Models
    Commerce and Industry
    Intra-Industry Trade
    Large Scale Industry
    Labor
    Technical Evaluation
    Data collection
    Innovation
    Industrialization
    Industrial Economics
    Industrial Development
    Industrial Policy
    Technology assessment
    Technological institutes
    Employment
    Information Media
    Mass Media
    Export Oriented Industries
    Electronics
    Computers
    Telecommunications Industry
    Manufacturing Industries
    Microprocessors
    Electronic Equipment
    Communication Industry
    satellite technology
    Government
    Institutional Framework
    Public Administration
    Business Ethics
    Political Leadership
    Institutional Framework
    Business Management
    Corporate Restructuring
    Industrialization
    Industrial Economics
    Industrial Development
    Industrial Policy
    Technology assessment
    Technological institutes
    Employment
    Social media
    Internet
    Data
    Microelectronics industry
    Electronic industries
    Digital electronics
    Microelectronics
    Podcasts
    Music videos
    Internet videos
    Interactive videos
    Videos
    Video recordings
    Capital market
    Developing countries
    Market share
    Labor
    Technology transfer
    Commercial satellite communications
    Civil government
    Common good
    Federal government
    Delivery of government services
    Government missions
    Personnel management
    Corporate reorganizations
    Intergovernmental cooperation
    Consolidation and merger of corporations
    Industrial Mergers
    Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions
    Mergers
    Microelectronics industry
    Electronic industries
    Digital electronics
    Regulations
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