INFORMATION POLICY AND INFORMATION SECURITY OF THE STATE AS PSYCHICAL AND SOCIAL PHENOMENON: PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS

Abstract

The article states that the influence of the psychic on the social and political processes in conditions of a continuous information flow is decisive; psychological pressure on consciousness becomes more widespread; emotionality of information messages, their influence on the psychological and social position of society increase.

The authors convince that practices of influence and dissemination of emotionally stained false information have become today informational and psychological wars that aim at activating of public consciousness of a public of an enemy state and influence on a state policy.

It is determined that psychological influence on the aggressor that is based on communicative processes with using of modern information technologies, involves change of a public opinion in the given direction. The authors carried out a comprehensive scientific analysis of the current state of information policy and information security of Ukraine as a psychological and social phenomenon. Social phenomena that arise in the informational sphere under influence of information propaganda of the aggressor and the military conflict, their influence on the psychological state of society, and what the consequences can be are examined. It is determined that in the conditions of real information aggression there is an urgent need for formation and active functioning of a single national regulator in the information sphere. Its activity would be aimed at developing of an effective national information policy, qualified fight off manipulative propaganda attacks, formation of national patriotic сconvictions among Ukrainian citizens, and development of a Ukrainian national information space.

It is noted, that the doctrinal adjustment of information processes is correlated with psychological and social ones. It is indicated that information flows, which go through mass communication channels, carry knowledge of the laws of reality, reflect the structure of human memory and intelligence, the main features of the social system, where interaction of individual and mental phenomena is most striking.