Digital health technologies, body pedagogies and material-discursive relations of young people’s learning about health

In this chapter we describe the conceptual and analytical approach to analysing young people’s learning through public pedagogies of digital health. Drawing from a research project exploring young people’s learning about health through digital health technologies, the chapter begins by articulating how learning through an engagement with these technologies can be conceptualised as enactments of public pedagogy. The chapter offers an example of an analysis informed by posthumanist theory which brings together critical digital health studies and public pedagogies. Through an analysis of young people’s learning, we reveal the “affective arrangements” (Fullagar, Rich, Francombe-Webb and Maturo, 2017; Slaby et al., forthcoming) by which young people learn about their bodies, selves and healthy lifestyles through these digital technologies.