Political Discourse on Facebook Fan Page “Thai Politics in a Shell”

Abstract

Research on political discourse on Facebook fan pages “Thai Politics in a Shell”, aims to study political discourse on Facebook fan pages “Thai politics in a shell”. Using the study method through principles from studying documents and messages from communications or posts on fan pages, responses or comments by choosing to study only statuses that directly relate to the presentation of information for motivation. The results of the analysis reflect political movements in different forms both positive and negative, as follows: 1) presenting the people's thoughts about political parties, emphasizing positive thoughts about the Move Forward Party and the Pheu Thai Party. This arises from the expectations of the people who want to see Thailand progress toward prosperity, and representatives selected by the people who run the country in a democratic manner are truly beneficial to the public. And negative ideas about the current government, which was dictatorial in deciding various matters, affecting the overall picture of the country that was incorrect and not beneficial to the general public by taking advantage of the number of government members of parliament who there were a lot of them, making it impossible to check and balance power according to the parliamentary mechanism. 2) Presenting ideas about resisting dictatorship with positive thoughts about the government party that was truly elected by the people and had a political stance towards democracy so that the country can move forward with democracy truly collective, and negative ideas about the current government, which was a coup d'état that brought a military leader into power as prime minister, as well as political mechanisms that facilitate the military junta to seize power and use power in an illegal way. And 3) presenting opinions on political ethics, most of which express opinions in the form of opposition to the government group that found disadvantages from ministerial corruption and advantages from being a government with too many majorities.