The Effect of Internet Use on Political Participation: Could the Internet Increase Political Participation in Thailand?

Meesuwan, Sanyarat

doi:10.21315/ijaps2016.12.2.3

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“…In addition, the findings showed that there were not any statistically significant differences between Afghan youths' frequency of Facebook use, political participation, and their engagement in the 2019 presidential elections on Facebook by their gender, age, and employment status. It is similar with the result of the study carried out by Meesuwan (2016) and Keating and Melis (2017) who reported that gender did not have any significant impact on the use of the Internet for political participation. The study disproved the common perception that the unemployed Afghan youths spend more time on social media in particular Facebook than those with some type of employment.…”

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confidence: 90%

Political participation of Afghan Youths on Facebook: A case study of Northeastern Afghanistan

Orfan

2020

Cogent Social Sciences

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Political participation of Afghan Youths on Facebook: A case study of Northeastern Afghanistan

Orfan

2020

Cogent Social Sciences

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“…In addition, a recent study by Meesuwan (2016) found that Internet use is positively correlated with political participation, after controlling for individual resource factors, including demographic characteristics, education attainment, SES, political efficacy, and organizational skills. In particular, the Thai respondents who used the Internet are more likely than those who did not use the Internet to contact news media to solve their problems with government officials or policies and to get together with others to raise an issue or sign a petition.…”

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Determinants of political participation in Thailand: An analysis of survey data (2002–2014)

Pankaew

Thananithichot²,

Satidporn

2022

Asian Politics and Policy

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This article aims to explain changes in the patterns of political participation in Thailand between 2002 and 2014. Relying on four waves of survey data taken from the Asian Barometer (2002Barometer ( , 2006Barometer ( , 2010Barometer ( , and 2014, it proposes an analytical framework composed of several factors that include not only socioeconomic status (SES) but also various psychological, attitudinal, and mobilization factors to test and seek for factors that affect a likelihood of being a passive or active political participant. This article shows that apart from some SES, there are various factors, such as political interest and self-efficacy, party attachment, and group membership that affected the participatory actions of Thai citizens during this period. Moreover, because group membership is only one factor having a significant impact on political participation for all the four waves of survey data, this article found that political participation of Thai citizens is largely a result of their learning and experiences obtained from the interaction within their respective groups.

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“…Generally speaking, researchers referred to three effects the Internet make to cultivate political investment among its clients. Right off the bat, the Internet with its plentiful data could mentally propel the clients and increment their certainty to the level that they chose to participate in political activity (Meesuwan, 2016).…”

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Political Communication and Public Sphere Democracy (An Analysis: The Hashtags Usage of Rejection the Omnibus Law 2020 on Twitter)

2021

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In academic research, the Internet and the public domain's topic now has a permanent place; it is entering the mainstream of political communication studies. The coming out of the same ideas and opinions with social media can build a discourse for further discussion. One of the viral and trending discourses on Indonesian twitter was the rejection of OMNIBUSLAW; many people issued opinions using the hashtags #MosiTidakPercaya and #Tolakomnibuslaw, which emerged as a result of the passing of the omnibus law, which contains many irregularities in its ratification. This research was conducted by taking data on Twitter in October 2020 and processed using the Nvivo 12 Plus software. The results of this study indicate that the social media using twitter as information is 25%, where the public uses Twitter as a means of seeking information on the Job Creation Bill in its development process and its rejection in it, political communication is 48%, communication that is built has an interest in running political goals and as a movement. 25% of politics in pressuring the government and forming public opinion on the Work Creation Bill and a place for public space to communicate can be seen in the public space that people are interested in voicing their anxieties if there is a disagreement of opinion between stakeholders and the wider community.

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The Effect of Internet Use on Political Participation: Could the Internet Increase Political Participation in Thailand?

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Cited by 13 publications

References 35 publications

Political participation of Afghan Youths on Facebook: A case study of Northeastern Afghanistan

Political participation of Afghan Youths on Facebook: A case study of Northeastern Afghanistan

Determinants of political participation in Thailand: An analysis of survey data (2002–2014)

Political Communication and Public Sphere Democracy (An Analysis: The Hashtags Usage of Rejection the Omnibus Law 2020 on Twitter)

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