Present Status and Leading Trends in the Work of Ukrainian Informative Centres Based on the Analysis of Websites' Content

Abstract

The aim of the article is to consider and highlight the leading trends in IAC work based on the analysis of websites’ content nowadays. The research methodology is based on the application of content analysis was used for revealing in the material of websites some trends and directions of IAC work, systematisation, and categorisation, which help to reconstruct the real situation of IAC in Ukraine and also methods of generalisation, comparative analysis, induction and deduction. The set of issues connected with the Ukrainian informative analytical centres (IAC) functioning on the modern stage, mainly regarding the formation of their net structure, formalisation, and activity coordination in a combination of outer challenges, determines the conceptual frameworks and leading trends in IAC work, highlights and considers the most critical tasks of nowadays. The scientific novelty of the study is the first article-based research of websites of above 50 Ukrainian IAC, mainly that are non-governmental. The article has determined the problematic-thematic directions of their analytical work, such as political-legal and economical; defence-security; international-integrational; social-transformation and cultural; expert and scientific-technical. Conclusions. Based on the websites’ content analysis, it was determined that most pointed informative and research structures concentrate on their analytical work on political-economic problematic that explains the interests of separate stakeholders and sources of financing for the subjects of the information field. It was shown that including modern trends and challenges following the political-economic problematic starts focused on the integration and safety questions and only after them on social-cultural aspects of the Ukrainian lives most in the part of social standards and democratic freedoms. And very little attention in an expert-analytical environment is put on the improving scientific and technical potential and analytical methodology on which the work of all IAC are based.