[1] Compared to the studies of media systems, transformation research is focused on the collective and individual actors who "demand, support, and manage change".
To the largest extent, transformation research addresses change from authoritarian to democratic media systems.
Cultural differences between the countries are said to become less important, since a few international conglomerates dominate the global media industry.
Also, even though there is a trend towards neutral journalism, political parallelism in the national press of Democratic Corporatist countries still persists and will probably remain in the immediate future.
In some countries, new extremist parties on the far right of the political spectrum arose, motivated through issues of immigration, multiculturalism and integration.
Moreover, so called advocacy journalism does not only persist in Polarized Pluralist countries (especially in Italy, Spain and Greece), but new forms of it are also beginning to proliferate in all kinds of media systems.
[27] The countertendencies of homogenization (for instance new right extremist parties, new forms of advocacy journalism, divergence processes in the styles of election coverage between the United States and Great Britain) lead to heterogenization of the media systems.
[29] Hallin & Mancini also argue that the results of their analysis do not support the thesis of heterogenization of media systems.
Foreign models are adapted to the particular historical, geographical, social, and cultural characteristics of the domestic media system.
[7][31][32][33] Rather than a temporary state of transformation, hybrid media systems are considered an equilibrium between two types of practices.