Janjira Sombatpoonsiri is an Assistant Professor at Thailand�s Chulalongkorn University, and a Research Fellow at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA). She has extensively researched civil society activism and digital repression in autocracies. She is the author of Humor and Nonviolent Struggle in Serbia (New York: Syracuse University Press, 2015). Her academic articles appear in several academic journals, including Journal of Peacebuilding & Development, Journal of Civil Society, Journal of Contemporary Asia, Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, and Journal of Peace Research. She is a member of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace�s Digital Democracy Network, and a regional manager for the Digital Society Project. She was a visiting fellow at the ISEAS Yusof-Ishak (Singapore, 2021-2022), the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy (Taiwan, 2020), and the Institute of Defense Studies and Analyses (India, 2017).