New Social Media and Politics in Thailand: The Emergence of Fascist Vigilante Groups on Facebook

Since 2010, Facebook has become a battleground between competing political camps in Thailand. Facebook groups like the Social Sanction group, tellingly abbreviated as SS, and the Rubbish Collector Organization, which was founded in 2014 and has attracted more than 200,000 members, have played a cruc...

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Main Author: Wolfram Schaffar
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: SEAS - Society for South-East Asian Studies 2016-12-01
Series:ASEAS - Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies
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Online Access:https://aseas.univie.ac.at/index.php/aseas/article/view/1415/1476