ทฤษฎีสื่อมวลชนประชาธิปไตยที่ประชาชนมีส่วนเข้าร่วมกับสถานภาพและปัญหาของสื่อภาคประชาชน กรณีศึกษาการใช้สื่อวิทยุชุมชนเป็นสื่อทางการเมืองในจังหวัดเชียงใหม่

Abstract

This article aims to comprehend and enhance the idea of Democratic-participant Media Theory which is a one of the normative theory. The principle of this theory suggests that people are not just media consumers, passive audiences, or disenfranchised group. It requires a respect for the right of showing their opinion in public sphere. Hence, it is necessary for media to display such content by embracing 3 following principles; (1) people’s point of view has to be regularly a part of media’s content. (2) people’s participation is required in the process of media production, and (3) media has to be accessible by people. Those principles have been applied in practice in favor of the theory, for example the arising of the civic media and community media such as community radio station in Thailand and Chiang Mai. However, when the community media has started to play crucial role in Thailand’s political crisis since 2008, this community radio transformed to be political media completely. This situation may cause an anxiety of severe separation in Thailand unpredictably.