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La télévision a constitué un réservoir dexpériences communes sous forme dimages, de langue, de références et même de relations fictives partagées, qui sétend à léchelle nationale, continentale et mondiale. Le fait dexposer les Canadiens et Canadiennes à des influences culturelles autres que celles de leur milieu immédiat a été perçu comme un facteur daméricanisation.
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Television has provided a reservoir of manufactured common experience in the form of shared images, language and references, even fictional acquaintances, that extends to a national, continental, and global scale. Exposing Canadians to cultural influences far beyond their local areas, it has been attacked as a tool of Americanization. At the same time, advocates of public broadcasting have sought to turn this same power to the creation of a new sense of nationhood. The English and French networks of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) were created with this express purpose. Yet in Canada and abroad, television has been denounced for debasing both culture and individuals, for peddling fatuous, violent or sexually exploitative entertainments, for encouraging passivity, promoting obesity, stunting creativity and eroding local community life and civil society. Through programming and commercials, television has promoted not only consumption of specific new products but consumerism as a new way of life. Conversely, television has been hailed for its revolutionary impact on human consciousness, shattering the linear, authoritarian perspective of print culture. By stimulating total engagement of the senses, by fracturing reality into multiple points of view, by restoring the value of oral communication it is creating, some believe, a global village.
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