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.ISSN
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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