The communication of people with physical disability's identity via news websites in Thailand
| dc.contributor.advisor | Kullatip Satararuji | th |
| dc.contributor.author | Prang Tharawanich | th |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-04-23T08:51:41Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-04-23T08:51:41Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020 | th |
| dc.date.issuedBE | 2563 | th |
| dc.description | Thesis (Ph.D. (Communication Arts and Innovation))--National Institute of Development Administration, 2020 | th |
| dc.description.abstract | News is commonly known to communicate facts. It is also used as a reference to represent reality in society. In the past, news communicating about people with physical disabilities was constructed to create negative values and meaning. The myth of inability judged people with physical disabilities as worthless. When the media landscape changes to online media, it opens the space for anyone to hold media ownership. It also allows people with physical disabilities to possess a space to communicate their identities with their own insider perspectives. The study titled, “The Communication of People with Physical Disability’s Identity via the News Websites in Thailand” is a qualitative research based on the identity concept of cultural studies. The first objective is to study people with physical disabilities’ identity through the news headlines and news pictures on a news website of organizations that are members of the News Broadcasting Council of Thailand. The second objective is to study the identity of people with physical disabilities in news headlines and news images on a news website of the organization founded by people with physical disabilities. The third objective is to study the relationship between the identity of people with physical disabilities on both websites. This study uses the critical discourse framework of Foucault and Fairclough to analyze the news websites topic discourse using language strategies. The analysis of the news pictures utilized the Pei Soo Ang disability discourse analysis framework to assess the dimension of social perception of the identity of people with physical disabilities. The study explored characteristics that have changed from the past. In addition, the research investigated the perceived value and meaning that society has regarding people with a physical disability and identified knowledge and power dominance. The websites selected for the study included the Thairath Online and Thisable news websites. Thairath Online is a news website with membership in the News Broadcasting Council of Thailand and Thisable news website founded by a person with a physical disability. The results found that people with physical disabilities in the Thairath Online website are powerless and cannot determine their own identities. The medical, state, economics, and religion are institutions with authority to use knowledge set to define the people with physical disabilities identity and reproduced it in the media. Although identification may appear positively in some cases, it still has a negative implication wherein people with physical disabilities identities are “physically different from general people,” “not the same group as general people,” “pitiful,” but have “ability” in some cases. The research also found that people with physical disabilities in Thisable news website have the power to identify their own identity. However, their identity remains dominated by various institutions in society. Therefore, they choose to adopt some original identities, bargain with a positive perspective, and reject some identity. People with physical disabilities agreed that their identity is “physically different from general people,” “not the same group as general people,” “not pitiful,” and have “ability.” In conclusion, the institution’s power determined the identity of people with physical disabilities in Thai society. Simultaneously, while being oppressive, people with physical disabilities choose to adopt some given identity, negotiate, and construct other aspects of their own identity. As a result, the identity relationship, which appears to be consistently on both websites is that people with physical disabilities are “physically different,” “not the same group as general,” and have “ability.” The different areas are pitiful, which appeared in the Thairath Online news website that people with physical disabilities are “pitiful.” Still, Thisable news website rejects the identity and determines that they are “not pitiful.” The news presentation of people with physical disabilities in Thai media is often released without full understanding their identity. This happens because the media used an outsider’s perspective standpoint. As a result, the media may become a significant obstacle in the pursuit of an “Inclusive Society” where everyone can live and conduct social activities equally with dignity and without discrimination. The recommendations from this research to agencies related to media policy must raise awareness and encourage all forms of “media” to access counseling from people with physical disabilities. They should seek information and communication about disabilities from an insider’s standpoint to communicate using language and images in the news with respect to human rights. | th |
| dc.format.extent | 329 leaves | th |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | th |
| dc.identifier.other | b212219 | th |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://repository.nida.ac.th/handle/662723737/6839 | th |
| dc.language.iso | eng | th |
| dc.publisher | National Institute of Development Administration | th |
| dc.rights | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. | th |
| dc.subject.other | Communication | th |
| dc.subject.other | People with disabilities | th |
| dc.subject.other | Disability studies | th |
| dc.title | The communication of people with physical disability's identity via news websites in Thailand | th |
| dc.type | text::thesis::doctoral thesis | th |
| mods.genre | Dissertation | th |
| mods.physicalLocation | National Institute of Development Administration. Library and Information Center | th |
| thesis.degree.department | Graduate School of Communication Arts and Management Innovation | th |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Communication Arts and Innovation | th |
| thesis.degree.grantor | National Institute of Development Administration | th |
| thesis.degree.level | Doctoral | th |
| thesis.degree.name | Doctor of Philosophy | th |