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The Asian Media & Mass Communication Conference 2010 Osaka, Japan gathering since 12 th March 2010 and it called for the Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva had to dissolve the parliament and announce new elections. The UDD was composed of mostly rural supporters with some Bangkok supporters as well. The rally was located around Phan Fa Lilat Bridge on Ratchadamnoen road. The protesters used different ways such as the rally around Bangkok and the donation blood for splashing blood at the entrances to Government House, Democrat Party and Abhisit’s home to pressure the government. Negotiation between the government and the UDD occurred continually but they fail, so the Centre for the Resolution of the Emergency Situation (CRES) had to order soldiers to tighten Rachapasong Intersection area on 14 th -18 th May. Clashes between soldiers and the red-shirted UDD supporters caused the death and injured of both soldiers and the red-shirted UDD supporters. On 19 th May, soldiers tighten the area for the last time at Rachapasong Intersection and the UDD then announced to stop protesting and the UDD leaders then surrendered to police officers. This caused many UDD supporters did not satisfy with this and they made riots and commit arson many places around Thailand. Therefore, government had to announce a curfew banning the public from leaving their houses in several provinces across the country. Using People Channel satellite TV to communicate with the community broadcast information to rural UDD supporters. People Channel raised the topic of the inequality of society, so the supporters could be stirred up easily which the inequality had come in all time. According to the situation, it was the political situation which made Thais broke into two groups, the yellow-shirt and the red-shirt. The red-shirt protests marched into Rachapasong Intersection which was the city center and the important business area more than a month. Consequently, red-shirt protest area was to be restricted and the red-shirt then announced disperse the rally and it had many severe riots in Bangkok. Form during several months, online communities had been established in many political groups such as government supporting, red-shirt supporting and the impartial group for the harmony. They reported situation in the protest area and gave opinion on the situation broadly. Working group and university students in Bangkok which was the center of the protest had to stay in their residence because the government declared the State of Emergency. Government agencies and private sectors also announced to close for a week. In addition to tracking news on television, newspapers, radio and the Internet was another way to keep track of the news from both media in country and outside country. They could comment on political situation in millisecond. Besides, the impartial group could make appointments to show their voices and power at public places over several weeks until the situation started to unravel. From the political gatherings in the past, on 14 th October 1973, university students were the leader to anti-government. According to The Black May in 1992, the most middle class in Bangkok were in opposition to government. Besides, in 2010, the red-shirt protesters who were from the rural area claimed that they did not receive the justice and there was a double standard in society. From those severe political crises, political role of university students gradually reduced since the event 213
The Asian Media & Mass Communication Conference 2010 Osaka, Japan on 14th October 1973. However, online communities which were the easy and fast channel to reach leaded university students to be more interested in politics. According to the data on 30 th May 2010, it found that university students had comments and opinion on politics and they also had created 1,308 groups in Facebook. The anti-red shirt groups were the highest amount and it was 423 groups around 32.4%. The highest amount of members group was the confidence of more than 1 million Thais against an election group which was 556,339 members. Besides, red-shirt supporters groups and anti-government group were totally around 15% and the peace demonstration groups were only 3%. Regarding from the number of Facebook users for politics, university students were included in this group. In doing so, university students started to have the role of participation with more politics. Although university students these days did not have much participation in politics as the university students who were in the political struggle period. At least it could be considered as a good start for the political consciousness of university students today. Research Objective To study the role of Facebook as the political consciousness awakening of university students in the context of Thai political crisis in April 2010. Methodology The data in research was derived from managing focus group interview from 12 university students who online on Facebook , gave their comments and their opinion, searched for information to update on Facebook in Thai political crisis in April 2010. Research Result 1.Recognition information about political crisis situation from social network on Facebook. University students who provided information would have some online social network on Facebook and track political news from television, free TV, ASTV, People Channel and foreign news agencies. They then posted the political news in the board on Facebook, so all their fiends knew the latest news from many aspects. Some of them share their opinion and criticized on each topic. Apart from news, they also posted pictures and clip videos in the topic for their friends to watch and share some opinion. Besides, tracking news from the online social network, some university students who provided information also reviewed and criticized politics in their message board. There were friends in online social network. They added and shared ideas in their posts. In addition, university students who provided information also applied in various political groups for getting information from them and sometimes sharing their opinion on the political groups that they were members. 214
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