Comments on: Guest post: Do we need moderation guidelines for dealing with mental health issues? http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2011/03/02/do-newspapers-need-guidelines-for-dealing-with-mental-health/ A conversation. Mon, 21 May 2012 12:30:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Paula Sharratt http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2011/03/02/do-newspapers-need-guidelines-for-dealing-with-mental-health/#comment-18030 Paula Sharratt Thu, 03 Mar 2011 10:05:36 +0000 http://onlinejournalismblog.com/?p=13278#comment-18030 There's a great blog called 'Fighting Monsters' which is a daily discussion about practical remedies for stigmatisation and health in all its aspects from a social work perspective: http://fightingmonsters.wordpress.com/ Paula There’s a great blog called ‘Fighting Monsters’ which is a daily discussion about practical remedies for stigmatisation and health in all its aspects from a social work perspective:

http://fightingmonsters.wordpress.com/

Paula

]]> By: Paula Sharratt http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2011/03/02/do-newspapers-need-guidelines-for-dealing-with-mental-health/#comment-18029 Paula Sharratt Thu, 03 Mar 2011 09:59:06 +0000 http://onlinejournalismblog.com/?p=13278#comment-18029 Beatrice, your experience was horrible. It makes me think how much caveat emptor applies to assumptions and audience before we write. The smooth surface of where we are now culturally, when we write is not only a palimpsest of equality achievements, it covers up how larger templates of possible exploitation are developed. Here's something I discovered a few months ago. There was an article on Radio 4 about an innovative, service, a social enterprise, aimed at helping people get to grip with mood, it's called Moodscope. I researched it and found some very interesting information which made me realise that vulnerable people who might use the site might also go into a 'spam pot' for other, services, provided by its Holding Company, Greencannon: Greencannon Limited is a web development business founded by Jon Cousins and Caroline Ashcroft. As of March 2011 we’re (meaning they are) working on nine of our own digital brands: • Cybersuitors.com - Online dating using psychometric testing to match members. • Fundango.com - Making learning fun for children and young people. • Just25words.co.uk - Free online dating, short ads, psychometric matching. • Lustability.com - Sexual compatibility testing, in development. • Matchology.com - Compatibility testing for couples using Dr Glenn Wilson’s CQ test. • Moodscope.com - Daily mood logger whose scores you can share with a buddy. • tellyAds.com - 12,472 current UK TV commercials available for instant free viewing. • Textmaniax - SMS text flirting game for bars and clubs, launching this year. • Traffic Maximiser - Search engine optimisation driving traffic to our clients’ websites. If you’d like to contact us, here’s how: Email info@greencannon.com Phone 01487 830208 (international +44 1487 830208) Or write to: Greencannon Limited St John’s Innovation Centre Cowley Road Cambridge CB4 0WS United Kingdom So when you reel at the way you were treated, it's instructive to think that the things we think are central to the discourse are possibly only a fragment of what's really happening online and off it!!! Kind egards Paula Beatrice, your experience was horrible. It makes me think how much caveat emptor applies to assumptions and audience before we write. The smooth surface of where we are now culturally, when we write is not only a palimpsest of equality achievements, it covers up how larger templates of possible exploitation are developed.

Here’s something I discovered a few months ago. There was an article on Radio 4 about an innovative, service, a social enterprise, aimed at helping people get to grip with mood, it’s called Moodscope. I researched it and found some very interesting information which made me realise that vulnerable people who might use the site might also go into a ‘spam pot’ for other, services, provided by its Holding Company, Greencannon:

Greencannon Limited is a web development business founded by Jon Cousins and Caroline Ashcroft.

As of March 2011 we’re (meaning they are) working on nine of our own digital brands:

• Cybersuitors.com – Online dating using psychometric testing to match members.

• Fundango.com – Making learning fun for children and young people.

• Just25words.co.uk – Free online dating, short ads, psychometric matching.

• Lustability.com – Sexual compatibility testing, in development.

• Matchology.com – Compatibility testing for couples using Dr Glenn Wilson’s CQ test.

• Moodscope.com – Daily mood logger whose scores you can share with a buddy.

• tellyAds.com – 12,472 current UK TV commercials available for instant free viewing.

• Textmaniax – SMS text flirting game for bars and clubs, launching this year.

• Traffic Maximiser – Search engine optimisation driving traffic to our clients’ websites.

If you’d like to contact us, here’s how:

Email info@greencannon.com

Phone 01487 830208 (international +44 1487 830208)

Or write to:
Greencannon Limited
St John’s Innovation Centre
Cowley Road
Cambridge
CB4 0WS
United Kingdom

So when you reel at the way you were treated, it’s instructive to think that the things we think are central to the discourse are possibly only a fragment of what’s really happening online and off it!!!

Kind egards

Paula

]]> By: Paula Sharratt http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2011/03/02/do-newspapers-need-guidelines-for-dealing-with-mental-health/#comment-18028 Paula Sharratt Thu, 03 Mar 2011 09:37:27 +0000 http://onlinejournalismblog.com/?p=13278#comment-18028 One thing I've noticed over the past couple of years is how the Guardian website seems to be anchored by a constituency of people who deflect and reduce the range of thinking. I think that the image of the Guardian as a liberal paper attracts people who want to see if they can change that. It might be political, it might be just plain destructive. Although we believe we're writing to an assumed cultural context, and seek feedback, often our 'reader' seems to be hunting for the form of 'cues' in words and language, to attack. Also, the smooth surface of 'Comment/Chat/Blog is 'prime cyber estate' for inertia and misselling. One thing I’ve noticed over the past couple of years is how the Guardian website seems to be anchored by a constituency of people who deflect and reduce the range of thinking. I think that the image of the Guardian as a liberal paper attracts people who want to see if they can change that.

It might be political, it might be just plain destructive. Although we believe we’re writing to an assumed cultural context, and seek feedback, often our ‘reader’ seems to be hunting for the form of ‘cues’ in words and language, to attack. Also, the smooth surface of ‘Comment/Chat/Blog is ‘prime cyber estate’ for inertia and misselling.

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