Platform has neutral connotations
Gillespie, "The politics of 'platforms'" in NM and SOciety 2010 12(3)
Surveillance produces anxieties, fear, suspicion
Minton, A. (2009). Ground control: Fear and happiness in the twenty-first-centurycity. London, UK: Penguin. Lyon, D. (2003a). Surveillance after September 11. Cambridge, UK: Polity. Chan, J. (2008). The new lateral surveillance and a culture of suspicion. Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance, 10, 223–239. emotion. An exception to this is Koskela’s paper entitled “‘The Gaze without Eyes’: Video-Surveillance and the Changing Nature of Urban Space” (2000), which discusses how forms of ambivalence, ambiguity, and contradiction are aroused in relation to video surveillance. By attending to the spaces in which video surveillance is instituted, she claims that it “changes the ways in which power is exercised, modifies emotional experiences in urban space and affects the ways in which ‘reality’ is conceptualized and understood” (p. 243). She focuses on the kinds of feelings and emotions that these spaces produce, claiming that “the variety of feelings surveillance evokes is eno...
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