Balinese and Thai Women's Political Movement: A Discourse Study on Social Media
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https://doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1602.31Keywords:
Balinese and Thai Women’s political movement, critical discourse analysis, social mediaAbstract
This study aims to describe the political movements of Balinese and Thai women on social media, with a focus on the analysis of actor networks, concept networks, and affiliation networks in the political discourse of Balinese and Thai women on Facebook. This study uses a netnographic research method. The data for this study are political discourses conveyed by the Facebook accounts of Ni Luh Djelantik and Rukchanok Srinork. The discourse data in this study are 18 discourses from 2020 to 2024. The data were analyzed using Discourse Networks Analysis (DNA). The findings showed that Balinese and Thai women share a common consensus in discourse and exhibit a similar pattern in conveying their political ideology on Facebook. The concept network showed that the issue of women in the progress of Balinese and Thai politics is widely agreed upon by the public. The affiliation network showed that both Balinese and Thai women received positive responses from other actors and received highly positive responses to the concepts conveyed on Facebook. It can be concluded that there is a transformation of Balinese and Thai women in the political field, with the concept of women and political progress being one of the important issues in the political movements of Balinese and Thai women. The political movements of Balinese and Thai women have received public attention and approval. This research suggests that Balinese and Thai women should participate in political education, and that the government should launch a social awareness campaign for the wider community.
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