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.

本附录收录了2021年1月1日至2021年12月31日期间，针对泰国境内观测到的数字压制技术开展的相关研究中所采用的方法与研究发现的补充信息。该时段正值亲改革抗议活动频发，随即遭到国家与制度行为体的强硬反制。本文件涵盖了社交媒体账号筛选、数据采集环节，以及包含社会网络分析、主题建模、定向关键词嵌入与语义图谱生成在内的大数据分析流程所涉及的相关信息与技术，上述分析流程用于标记所关注的关键叙事。