Information Policy as Communication Concept

Abstract

The article is aimed at reviewing and comparing the key aspects of information policy, and describing it as a communication concept. The author extrapolates Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy`s model on the object field of information policy. The topicality of the research is determined by the necessity to study the emergence of a new informational society, mediatization of politics, the development of information policy and its institutionalization, information management techniques in the context of artificial intelligence development, as well as by the interdisciplinary character of the phenomenon. The author defines the terms information, social information and information policy, compares and analyses various approaches to interpreting them, shows differences in understanding purposes, functions and components of information policy, and gives the examples of a lateral and a unilateral approaches to defining information policy. The author also determines three concepts of information policy, namely, press relations service, marketing concept, and Rosenstock-Huessy`s dialogic concept. In this context, the author specifies four correction discourses relevant in information policy practices (Unity, Faith, Power, and Respect), and infers that Rosenstock-Huessy`s concept provides for forming strategic framework for implementing information policy, and journalism in this context is interpreted as a discourse technique of social construction. The key inference suggests that an information policy is aimed at constructing and structuring information landscape, production of meaning and images, and correcting the mass consciousness. Communication campaigns are vied as actions within an information policy.