Abstract
This article explores the passive participation of French students within the construction of public opinion on sexuality and religion. The research was conducted on 375 French students’ sample, aged 18 to 23 in the second year of Bachelor's degree in Humanities and Social Sciences within a control environment of documentary research, discursive production, and audiovisual creativity. The experience took place over two consecutive years, respectively, 2017-2018 and 2018-2019. The experiment was based on three distinct explorations corresponding to distinct individual cognitive experiences aimed at the representation, expression and meaning of the intimate limits assigned by students to public display through the mediatization of sexuality and religion. The opinion of French students on the mediatization of intimate sphere in view of their passive participation within the construction of this opinion feeds two scenarios: privatization of the public sphere and commodification of the intimate sphere.
Highlights
Theoretical considerationsSexuality and religion are two identity spaces, both individual and collective, that designate private or even intimate places (Giddens, 1992; Amiraux, 2018)
In order to analyse the corpus of articles produced by the students related to the knowledge and information media offer concerning sexuality and religion we have constituted a grid of six discriminatory categories of which: three for the definition of the public sphere and three for the definition of the intimate/private sphere
68.10% of the scientific articles are revealing research results on themes corresponding to the public sphere and 31.90% on themes corresponding to the intimate sphere, while 75.89% of the press information offer is linked to the public sphere and 24.11% to the intimate sphere
Summary
Sexuality and religion are two identity spaces, both individual and collective, that designate private or even intimate places (Giddens, 1992; Amiraux, 2018). The consensus of researchers is widely effective from this perspective despite the diversity of their theoretical and methodological approaches Be it sexual identity (Johansson, 2016; Moran, 2017; White, Moeller, Ivcevic, & Brackett, 2018; 2018; Underwood, 2019) or religious identity (Hunsberger, Pratt & Pancer, 2001; Ebstyne King, 2003; Oppong, 2013) what is observable as a common element in the studies conducted to date is the presence of the transdisciplinary problem of the moving boundary that separates and organizes the places of crossover between these intimate identity spaces and the public sphere, especially when it comes to the mediatized public sphere (Hoover, 2003; Subrahmanyam, Greenfield & Tynes, 2004; Meyer, 2013; Lövheim, 2013). The politicization of private/intimate spaces of sexuality and religion, raises as many questions as their publicization increased in the current context of mediatization. Unlike previous perspectives regarding the social production of the symbolic boundaries between public sphere and the private/intimate sphere of sexuality and religion, we make the choice to consider the individual constitutive determinations of the public opinion. From this point of view, we form the hypothesis that the public/private-intimate delimitations induced by the social problems of sexuality and religion, the movements of these delimitations and the meaning of the passages they organize are found in individual intimate motivations on which rests the media construction of the public opinion
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