With modern technology throwing the conversation wide open, is Thailand teetering on the edge of political change?
Societies are always teetering on the edge of something as they are in perpetual transition. A society that doesn’t teeter is one that is dead. Certainly, digital, nano or quantum technology speeds up today’s teetering exponentially. In this way Thailand’s experience is not unique. The little people everywhere are relishing the new means of self-expression and previously unimaginable connection with the like-minded. Through blog, facebook and twitter the voices of little people can now be heard. It’s hopeful, liberating – and addictive. We the little people love it! But it’s scary for the big people who resist change, at least change that’s not to their benefit. They don’t like unfamiliar, uncontrolled movement or noise. Thailand’s digital media revolution is indeed the liberisation of the voice of ‘The Little People’, and they have much to talk about according to a recent article from The Nation reporting survey from the King Prajadhipok Institute which found that most respondents had
