Experiencing risk, surveillance, and prosumption

Health and physical education students’ perceptions of digitised health and physical activity data

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ID12572306
AuthorsBonnie Pang (0000-0002-0250-2317, Western Sydney University, corresponding author), Valeria Varea (0000-0003-3572-4976, University of New England), Sarah J Cavallin (0000-0002-2536-114X, Western Sydney University), Alexia Cupac (0000-0002-0996-627X, Western Sydney University)
Year2018
Volume24
Issue8
Pages801-813
Publication date2018-06-23
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSport Education and Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1357-3322 • E-ISSN: 1470-1243
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13573322.2018.1491835
OpenAlexW2809858463
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited41

Digital technologies are now considered important in shaping young people's engagement in and with health and physical activity. Recent discussions show that the use of digital technologies to track health and fitness may over-emphasize the linear understanding of the body and health generally underpinned by Western health ideologies such as healthism. Other studies have shown the increased use of digital technologies in teaching Health and Physical Education (HPE) and as a means to enhance health and increase physical activity. Despite the opportunities and risks apparent in these studies, little is known about how HPE students make choices, negotiate, and resist or embrace the digitalisation of physical activity, exercise, and more broadly health. This study examines HPE students’ meaning making of risk and surveillance associated with the self-digitisation of exercise. The study further investigates how the concept of ‘prosumption’; the production, curation and consumption of self-data within the context of digitised health and physical activity, is understood. Based on the findings, we have constructed a typology of prosumers that can be used as a pedagogical device to illustrate the various kinds of subject positions students take up with digital technology in health and physical activity. This study extends the current understanding of prosumers by identifying the ‘ambivalent prosumer’. The results provide insights that have direct pedagogical implications in HPE teacher education specifically in the areas of knowledge production and consumption of knowledge through digital technology in health and physical activity

Consumption (sociology · Context (archaeology · Digital health · Health care · Health education · Meaning (existential · Pedagogy · Physical education · Political science · Public health · Social science · Sociology · Medicine · Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports · Physical Activity and Health · Physical Education and Pedagogy · Psychology

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