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เกมศึกษา: การศึกษารอยต่อ-รอยแยกเชิงวัฒนธรรมเรื่องเกม

Assoc. Prof. Kanchana Kaewthep, Ph.D. — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0700

Disability Discourse in Thai Children’s Literature

Assist. Prof. Ketsaraporn Thongphumprueaksa, Ph.D. — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0700

Books serve as a significant medium for instilling social consciousness and ideologies from early childhood. Accordingly, this study aims to examine how Thai children’s literature, written by Thai youth authors with disabilities, narrates disability and disabled individuals within various discursive frameworks. It investigates whether children’s literature serves as a platform for disability resistance, a reflection of disability in the real word, or a reproduction of stereotypical representations. Key theoretical concepts including disability studies, narration, and the social construction of meaning form the theoretical foundation of this study. Regarding methodology, this study employs qualitative research and utilizes textual analysis to collect and interpret the data. The findings reveal that disability is represented across six major discursive dimensions. The medical model frames disability as a form of deficiency or impairment that requires treatment. The charitable or welfare-oriented model positions people with disabilities as inferior and in need of assistance. The social model identifies the challenges of disability within societal and environmental barriers, rather than within the individual. The cultural model interprets disability as a social construction. The legal and human rights-based model emphasizes the rights and dignity of people with disabilities, advocating for equality and non-discrimination. The religious model frames disability as a divine test or spiritual challenge bestowed by God. The study also finds that the dominant disability discourse varies depending on the type of disability portrayed in each text. Moreover, the authors present a range of perspectives toward these discourses, including supportive, critical, and negotiated stances.

Constructing the Meaning of the Elderly through the Talents of Elderly’s Game Show Programs on Television

Assist. Prof. Pornchai Chanvisatlak, Ph.D. — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0700

Textual analysis of elderly’s game show programs on digital television using the concept of television game show genre, television for elderly and construction of reality. The main concept of elderly’s talents game show programs inspire the audience through the elderly's talent show and program structure that is designed to be both a season-long competition and finished in one episode, create a positive image for the elderly through the television program elements. Starting with the name and slogan of the program, it reflects a positive image of the elderly. Later, the theme is to highlight elderly's abilities and experiences, providing content on health, wisdom, family and society through the traditions and innovations in genre of television game show, including: elderly contestants who are still strong and have unique abilities, simple and fun rules, hosts and judges who encourage, help and highlight the potential of the elderly in the program, viewers and awards. Talents of elderly’s game show programs use television production techniques related to arts, camera angles and camera movement, and meaning of scenes to reinforce the meaning that shows the elderly have physical, mental and spiritual strength, including excellent abilities.

A Guideline for Developing Inclusive Website Design

Lecturer Visawat Panyawongsataporn, Ph.D. — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0700

Old adults and people with disabilities are vulnerable groups that often face digital divide challenges due to various limitations, such as physical diversity and age-related differences. These barriers hinder their access to essential information and services, thereby widening the digital divide in Thai society. This study aims to explore principles and processes for designing inclusive websites to help bridge this gap. Employing qualitative research methods, the study involves content analysis and interviews with individuals with visual and hearing impairments and those from diverse age groups. Based on the findings, a preliminary website design model (prototype) was developed and tested with the original participants. The result is the Inclusive Website Design Canvas, a guideline for web designers and academics to promote inclusive digital access and reduce digital inequality.

Reporting Protests: The Roles of Thai Press in Political Assembly and Political Violence

Assoc. Prof. Phansasiri Kularb, Ph.D. — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0700

This research article presents parts of findings from the study, entitled Reporting Protests: The Roles of Thai Press in Political Assembly and Political Violence. The objectives of this article are: (1) to study the operation of news media in reporting political assembly, (2) to study factors that influence news media’s reporting of political assembly, and (3) to study news media’s approaches in reporting political assembly that legitimize the use of violence, and ways to reduce conditions that lead to the use of violence. Three sets of concepts and theories are used as the analytical framework: the roles of mass media in reporting protests, peace journalism, and sociology of journalism. Qualitative research methodology, including documentary research, in-depth interview, and focus group interview, was employed to examine how Thai journalists worked in their coverage of 5 political mass demonstrations from 1992 to 2021.

Research findings show that news media generally planned on reporting political assembly since they were important political events in which a large number or people participated. Usually, news media would assess the situation to prepare safety precautions for field crew and had specific reporting guidelines. Factors influencing news media’s reporting include internal and external factors. Findings also identify the approaches that legitimize the use of violence: the description of protests as important events, yet unusual ones that often stir up public disorder; monitoring of unfolding situations, but not elaborating on the crux of conflict that gives rise to the protest, highlighting the competition between the government and protesters, particularly the organizers or protest leaders, and the focus on discernible physical violence, but failing to connect such occurrences with structural or cultural violence. Factors that compel journalists to use such approaches are the news production routine that prioritizes event-oriented reportage over in-depth reporting, and the press being interfered with and being affected by violence, which deprives them of editorial autonomy. Meanwhile, the reporting approaches that minimize the use of violence are the description of protests as an exercise of communication rights and a means of political participation by attempting to report facts from multiple stakeholders; prioritizing in-depth reporting to explain the conflict, principles underpinning the protesters’ demands, rationale behind the use of violence from the state and protesters, the repercussions of violence on disparate parties, as well as monitoring, documenting, and investigating the use of violence. One important factor that enables journalists to use such approaches is editorial independence and safety in carrying out their work. Based on the study’s findings, the guarantee of press freedom and people’s communication rights are strongly recommended to support news media in de-legitimizing violence and minimizing the conditions that leads to the use of violence.

Trauma, Ghost, and Silence in By the Time It Gets Dark (Dao Khanong): A Study of the October 6th Massacre in the Context of Everyday Life

Assoc. Prof. Chutima Pragatwutisarn, Ph.D. — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0700

This research paper studies By the Time It Gets Dark, the film by Anocha Suwichakornpong, concerning the traumatic event of the October 6, 1976. By shifting the focus from the original trauma to everyday life as a crucial site for investigating this traumatic event, the film represents a new way of reading through which to the study of the October 6^th massacre. I contend that for Anocha, who does not have direct experience of the event, the trauma of the October 6^th massacre represents what Judith butler terms “the loss of loss.” Given the pervasive silence surrounding the event, Anocha’s concern is not with the rediscovery of historical facts, but rather an exploration of how this past continues to shape the lives of ordinary people in the present. To investigate these issues, I employ Avery Gordon’s concept of haunting as methodological approach to read silent traces of the past or what Gordon calls “ghostly matters.” I argue that while everyday life bears the impact of this traumatic past, it simultaneously reveals trauma as a moving or creative force embedded in everyday struggles and transformations.

Selaphobia: Ritual of Human Sacrifice and the Regimes of Image in Thai and Indonesian Folk Horror Screens

Assist. Prof. Wanchana Tongkhampao, Ph.D. — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0700

This research paper investigates Southeast Asian folk horrors in Thai television drama The Seer and Indonesian film Impetigore by comparing their portrayals of spiritualism through the ritual of human sacrifice. The paper thereby observes similar socio-political thought in the two countries’ horror stories. The analysis demonstrates how the two texts combine their writers’ imagination and personal memory to re-imagine the folk horrors as prosthetic memory with a potential to be carried on. Additionally, the analysis employing the “regime of image” conception reveals three analogous concepts reflected in the two texts: (1) The existence of ghost and spirit in the modern world on the condition that they are placed in designate public/private spaces; while the “good” ghost can be visible publicly, the “bad” ghost are eliminated or hidden; (2) The careful political critique preventing criticisms with specific targets; and (3) The use of investigative plot revealing the knowledge and memory gaps between different generations, As the research demonstrates, the comparison between Thai and Indonesian folk horrors can be the starting point for conceiving the relationship between screen culture and social-political changes in a transnational/regional context.

“คุณพี่เจ้าขา…ดิฉันสื่อสารศึกษาในฝูงหงส์”

Assoc. Prof. Somsuk Hinviman, Ph.D. — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0700

Lifestyle Journalism

Lecturer Thomtong Tongnok — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0700