Polskie think tanki jako społeczni uczestnicy dyskursu politycznego

Analyzing the modernization processes in present-day democratic systems from the perspective of political communication and its actors, one must pay attention to the widening range of possible relations and research in this area. Today political communication research, conducted in the field of political sciences and media studies, go far beyond the interactions between the actors working in the sphere of the institutional policy and the so-called mainstream media, which have been in the center of attention of political scientists and media researchers until lately. More and more often, the research and considerations, undertaken by the latter, cover other more or less formalized and organized subjects of the social life, which influence, or have the potential to influence the shape of political decision centers’ work. The author of the text deals with the issue of the relations between think tank organizations and the media. On the one hand, the article shows the position of nongovernment expert organizations in the media public sphere. On the other hand, it shows how think tanks use Internet-tools of the communication. The article is based on empirical findings: the content analysis of the chosen news media and websites of the selected think tank organizations.