Abstract:
The objectives of this research were to study history of periodicals in areas of culture, totalling 5 titles as follows: Kinnaree, Mung Boran, Art and Culture, Silpakorn, and Sarakadee in order to analyze culture contents the appeared in those 5 periodicals between 2000 to 2006. There were 230 articles obtained by selecting from cover page and editor page that showed well known article accounts of 144 articles. Descriptive statistics were adopted for the data analysis.The research findings showed that history of those 5 periodicals were from different period of production time, creation, and frequency, Silpakorn was the oldest. However, their creations objectives different such as : Kinnaree serviced passengers of Thai Airways; Mung Boran disseminated information in history and archeology of for conservation; Sarakadee presented different academics in the many disciplines in the form of non fiction, etc. Reading the issuing frequencies, they were monthy, twice per month, and three times per month, When analyze cultural contents of those 5 periodicals, it was found that the quantities contents appearing in Thai Culture were social, economic, politics, totalling of 47 articles at the highest level. Art recreation, totalling of 31 articles, were in the next level. Thai wisdom was 26 articles. Religion and customer were 19 articles. Live culture was 14 articles. And, then, culture inhertitance was 7 articles at the lowest level. Those 5 periodicals were interesting contents and gave knowledge including respectively articles illustrations.