Ramping up Control: How Judicial Harassment and Online Smear Campaigns Work in Tandem to Limit Dissent in Thailand - Appendix

This appendix contains additional information on the techniques and findings adopted in research concerning digital repression techniques observed in Thailand from between 1 Jan 2021 - 31 Dec 2021, a time marked by pro-reform protests which were met with harsh counter-reactions by state and institutional actors. This document covers information and techniques adopted in conducting social media account selection, data collection, and big data analysis comprising social network analysis, topic modeling, and directed keywords embeddings and semantic map generation for the labeling of key narratives of interest.

本附录包含2021年1月1日至2021年12月31日泰国境内数字压制技术（digital repression techniques）相关研究的补充技术细节与研究成果。该时段正值亲改革抗议活动频发，且遭遇了国家与制度行为体的强硬反制。本文件涵盖社交媒体账号筛选、数据采集环节所采用的方法与技术，以及包含社交网络分析、主题建模、定向关键词嵌入（directed keywords embeddings）与语义图谱生成（semantic map generation）在内的大数据分析手段，上述方法用于标注目标关键叙事。