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- PublicationAttitudes of and Usage by Journalists regarding the Official Information Act B.E. 2540(University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce, 2007)
; University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce. School of Communication ArtsThis research aimed to study the knowledge and attitudes of Thai journalists towards the OfficialInformation Act, B.E. 2540, how it is used and problems using this Act. Data from 345 journalists (225journalists from 75 provinces and 120 journalists from the Bangkok area), and in-depth interview datafrom 9 journalists who have filed complaints for the disclosure of official information from governmentorganizations, were analyzed using frequency distribution percentages, mean and standard deviation,and Chi-squares. The findings were as follows.1. Most journalist had positive attitudes towards the Official Information Acts, B.E. 2540.2. Knowledge of the journalists regarding the Official Information Act, B.E 2540, had nostatistically different relationship with attitudes towards the Official Information Act , B.E. 2540, and oftheir use behavior, but had a statistically different relationship with the usage of the Act at a significantlevel of 0.05.3. Length of employment had no statistically different relationship with attitudes towards theOfficial Information Act, B.E. 2540, and use behavior of the journalists in general (except the access toinformation on complaints filed with the concerned offices at the significant level 0.05). However, it wasfound that the duration of employment had a statistically different relationship with the usage of the Act atthe significant level of 0.05.4. Attitudes of the journalists towards the Official Information Act, B.E. 2540, had no statisticallydifferent relationship with the use behavior, but had a statistically different relationship with the usage ofthe Official Information Act, B.E.2540, at the significant level of 0.05.5. The journalists pointed out two problems concerning the use of the Official Information Act,B.E.2540; 1) government organizations were reluctant to disclose the requested information, and 2) thejournalists needed more alternate access channels to official information from those specified in the Act.5 121 - PublicationLanguage Usage for the Front Page Headline of Newspaper with Reflection of Political Violence in March–May 2010(University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce, 2013)
; University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce. School of Communication ArtsThe aim of this research is to study and compare the language used in the front page headline of newspapers in various dimension: frequency, size of areas used for agenda, now the headlines are framed through the use of language aimed to depict the image and how they positioned themselves as they criticized the government, the red t-shirt group, and the other groups related to political violence issues.The data were collected from headlines of three newspapers focusing on banners between March 12 and May 19, 2010 in selected newspaper “Thairath”, representing popular newspaper, “Matichon”, as quality newspaper and “Naewna”, represented semi-quality and semi-popular newspaper. In total 207 headlines were examined.The results indicate that all three newspapers emphasized that the Thai political violence was initiated by the red t-shirt’s movement was the most used theme. Matichon was underlined this particular issue most often. The second devoted its space to the second topic was the emphasis on the government as the one who initiated the violence. Like the first theme, Matichon was also the one who most often emphasized this issue. The third the emphasis on the other groups as the Thai political violence initiators, which most appeared in Naewna.Finding also reveal that the most areas size of banner on all three newspapers was given to the news claiming the red t-shirt group was responsible for the violence. This was most seen in Thairath. The second was given to the news that claimed responsibility from the government most found in Matichon. The third the news regarding the other groups as the violence initiations most respectively appeared in Thairath.Content analysis to better understand media framing found that the samples used only nicknames to identify an individual or groups that represented the red t-shirt and the other groups related to political violence.With regard to word usage to depict the image of the political violence, it was found that popular newspaper (Thairath) and the semi-quality and semi-popular newspaper (Naewna) presented the higher rate of such the word usage, comparing to Matichon, the quality newspaper. This was supported by the hypothesis testing at the 0.05 level of significance. Naewna used the most numbers of words making the highest average rate of the word usage regarding the political violence. In respect with agenda setting, the distinction of the hypothesis testing at the 0.05 level of significance indicate that the popular newspaper (Thairath), the semi-quality and semi-popular newspaper (Naewna), and the quality newspaper (Matichon) showed their positive points of view towards the government side. Naewna most showed its the positive points of view toward the government side, followed by Matichon and Thairath respectively.14 201 - PublicationThe Preparation of Story Package for News Production: A Case Study of 3 Online Newspapers in England(University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce, 2011)
; University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce. School of Communication ArtsThe objective of this qualitative research is to study about the preparation of story package for news production of 3 online newspapers in England which are The Daily Telegraph, The Star and The Metro by using a case study method. The data collection consists of the web masters’ interviews. The findings are as follows :1. The preparation of story package for news production began around 2006-2007 with the purpose of adding values to news contents to meet readers’ demand.2. Story packages for news production are found various forms including video clips, audio clips, photo galleries, web boards, forums, discussion groups, chats, archives of news database, search engines, e-mails to editors, hyperlinks to news background or previous news pages and external links to some relating web sites, organizations, and topics.3. Each newspaper organization has different procedures in preparing story packages: some newspapers may edit news broadcasts (audio and/or video) to limit the length while some others may not edit the clips.9 625