Political landscape of students from B.E. 2557 to 2564 on political formation, Democratic ideology and political discourse

Abstract

This research is a qualitative one, collecting data form related documents. It aimed to study 1). political landscape of students, 2). factors formulated those student to express their political opinions and 3). their democratic ideology and political discourse. It is found that such political situation is characterized by the use of power to control public space when student groups show political expression and when student groups have political activities, for example, public gathering, showing of political opinion through social media channel. This showing of different political opinion of students is controlled by prosecution against student groups. The factors that cause the formation of students to express political opinion, are political conflict factors, technology advancement factors, factors of idea influence of scholars and education institutes and factors on democratic knowledge foundation. Moreover, it is found that students who express political opinion want to see democratic politics, consisting of principles of right, liberty, equality, equal right and fraternity. Concerning political discourse of those students, their political expressions produce political discourse to incite idea, collective action and create practical motivation, for example, “Let it ends in our generation”.