"Thailand’s community radio sector encompasses a diverse array of stations, both religious and secular. This suggests the capacity to drive social transformation. However, while operational structures within these stations reflect a broad range of roles that potentially influence their formats and ... content delivery, programmes primarily emphasize entertainment, the dissemination of national and local information and news largely from official sources, as well as religious propagation. Political programming is largely absent. These limitations arise from a lack of diversity among station operators, the intentional avoidance of political issues, the absence of supportive affiliations, ambiguous licensing criteria and constraints in technical resources and transmission coverage. Rather than fulfilling its promise as radio ‘by the people, for the people’, current structures and roles suggest that community radio – especially people’s radio – is increasingly being sidelined, resulting in a less diverse and pluralistic media landscape and leaving rural areas and minorities without a voice." (Abstract) more

"This study used qualitative research involving a documentary analysis of the existing research in Thailand. In all, 60 research studies between 1993 and 2012 [...] were reviewed and analyzed for participatory communication usage and media types. These studies were classified by the purpose of parti ... cipatory communication using: (1) studies focusing on participatory communication as the framework for participatory media, (2) studies focusing on participatory communication as the framework for communication strategies for people participation building, and (3) studies focusing on participatory communication as the framework for people participation in solving problems." (Methodology, page 69) more