Mapping Mental Health Intermediaries: Vulnerable Publics and Platformed Support

This paper examines online support programs for people with mental health problems through a case study of the Australian non-profit mental health organisation beyondblue’s Facebook Page and dedicated support Forums. We draw on the concept of ‘vulnerable publics’ to account for the differences in modes of support between the Facebook Page and Forums. Digital methods and qualitative analysis help distinguish patterns of participation, connective action and platformed and human mediation between the two sites. This is part of a larger project to identify better models for using popular social media platforms like Facebook to facilitate community- based, peer mental health support. Our analysis identifies standout characteristics of the 'intermediaries' both human and non-human or platformed (Smith-Maguire and Matthews, 2012; Moor, 2012) as they affect the impact of peer-oriented online mental health support, in order to better understand what we are referring to as vulnerable networked publics

COVER SHEET

The increased interest in a more disciplined approach for Business Process Management has motivated many organizations to make significant investments in process modelling initiatives. This, in turn, has triggered significant related research. One outcome of this development is the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN), which has been proposed as the new process modelling industry standard. BPMN has become over the last two years a popular process modelling technique. This paper represents the first contribution towards a theoretically sound and empirically validated analysis of BPMN. Based on an established process, we conducted a representational analysis of BPMN using a representation model based on the Bunge ontology. In addition to the theoretical identification of possible shortcomings of BPMN, we conducted a comprehensive series of interviews with BPMN users in order to seek empirical evidence for our propositions. Through this study, we identified a number of critical issues related to the practice of modelling with BPMN in contemporary process management initiatives, for example, the capture of business rules and the specification of the Lane and the Pool constructs

Development

The significance of functional programming is revealed as that the feasible approach to language extensibility which it enables is further applicable to programming in general and beyond. The essence of functional programming is its enablement of programmer-defined function-valued functions. The feasibility of language extension by normal programmers depends upon the exclusion of interpretation in favour of direct definition, and higher-order functional programming is the key to enabling definitional rather than interpretational extensions. Functional programming thus offers the opportunity for the exclusion of the interpretation that otherwise pervades programming in general, and may be applicable beyond to analog computing and systems in general. Nevertheless, specific technical challenges need to be met before “totally functional programming” can realise its promises