Media education in Thailand: Contexts and prospects

Simple item page
dc.contributor.authorJohn Langer
dc.contributor.authorNuntiya Doungphummes
dc.contributor.correspondenceJ. Langer; School of Communication and the Arts, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia; email: john.langer@vu.edu.au
dc.date.accessioned2025-03-10T07:38:08Z
dc.date.available2025-03-10T07:38:08Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.description.abstractIn August 2005 Thailand's National Statistical Office released a survey announcing nearly three and a half million Thais to be 'illiterate'. Another fifteen million, it was discovered, had the ability to read but opted not to, for a range of reasons. One of these was a preference for watching television. Of the total who could read, over twenty five percent were found to be 'non-reading literates'. Possibly, the most revealing aspect of the survey was not its results but the intense public reaction in the following weeks: was Thailand turning into a country of passive couch potatoes; what did this say about our nation's cultural sensibilities; where was the potential for growth and change? Letters to daily newspapers flooded in, and column inches were filled with commentary, criticism, alarm, speculation and solutions. © 2009 Springer Netherlands.
dc.identifier.citationMedia Education in Asia
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/978-1-4020-9529-0_14
dc.identifier.isbn978-140209528-3
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-84892828757
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.dusit.ac.th//handle/123456789/5081
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherSpringer Netherlands
dc.rights.holderScopus
dc.titleMedia education in Thailand: Contexts and prospects
dc.typeBook chapter
mods.location.urlhttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84892828757&doi=10.1007%2f978-1-4020-9529-0_14&partnerID=40&md5=f0b3e8b155272208c2db25382de61de2
oaire.citation.endPage215
oaire.citation.startPage199
Files
Collections
SCOPUS 2005-2009