PUBLIC SPHERE AND THE USE OF TWITTER FOR THAILAND POLITICAL ACTIVISM OF THE PUBLIC SECTOR DURING THE YEAR 2020 - 2021
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The advancement of information technology has made political communication adapt to modern society. Twitter, social network, has served as a public metropolitan area (Public Sphere) that is important during the political crisis of the country in 2020-2021. Twitter has a direct impact on the political participation factors of the public sector in society. It plays an important role in politics in various activities, making the online political movement significantly dynamically parallel to the real world. It is the perimeter that shows the dimensions of the area that builds the social relationship of the people with the state. It is a tool to drive social change and have empirical influence of the public sector and being the great importance to the current Thai political context. This can be described as follows: (1) the public sphere which showing the opposition to the state power by create a clear definition of opposition to state power, to let the society understand the purpose of the resistance movement even more. (2) the public sphere that represents part of political ideology. Resulting in a united feeling, engagement with the same goals of the masses, the sentiment as a part of a movement and (3) the public sphere which showing political satire on social media. Allowing people to criticize and express any opinions on various issues widely.
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บทความ ข้อความ ภาพประกอบ และตารางประกอบที่ลงพิมพ์ในวารสารเป็นความคิดเห็นส่วนตัวของผู้นิพนธ์ ถือเป็นความรับผิดชอบของผู้นิพนธ์แต่เพียงผู้เดียว กองบรรณาธิการไม่จำเป็นต้องเห็นตามและไม่มีส่วนรับผิดชอบใด ๆ
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