what are the main implications of this process
of “democratic creative destruction”?

It is clear that democracy has historically evolved in part through creative
destruction in the media environment. Think, for example, of broadcasting –
starting with radio, then terrestrial television, then post-broadcast television.
Similarly, democracy has evolved through other dramatic societal changes,
from institutional changes in party systems (Mair 1997) and forms of
governance (Rhodes 1997) to changes in individual-level aggregate levels of
trust in institutions (Norris 2011) and in people’s value systems (Ingelhart
1997). So far, we have described more recent creative destruction in the
media at both the institutional and the individual level, but what is the
impact of this process of creative destruction on democracy?
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