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Some interesting (and amusing) conceptions, though I suspect the CCTV employees I have come across in my research would most probably prefer the (more positive) term 'multitaskers' to describe their role in the system e.g. watchers, reviewers, interpretators, controllers, employees, communicators, team workers, sign readers, intelligence gatherers and so on. One has to be careful when describing such a group, as it is quite easy to use an adjective which is either too narrow in scope, or heavily underpinned with overly negative connotations. I myself quite like the idea of starting with the more neutral system 'overseers', 'operators' or 'operatives' terminology, leaving one to then systematically unpack/describe the various formal/informal actions and roles the aforementioned perform. Gavin At 19:49 10/03/2006 +0200, [log in to unmask] wrote: >Hi all, > >This is amusing and challenging! Given that in Finnish language the verb >‘valvoa’ has two parallel meanings, to be awake/stay up and to >oversee/supervise, a guard who’s having a nap is a contradiction in terms. >Which of course doesn’t mean that we have no ‘sleeper-peepers’ here... > >Maybe we should call them ‘stay ups’ to emphasise the sexist motives which >are included in the business anyway ;-) > >Sorry! Seems it’s not my most serious day today. What about ‘onlooker’? >Someone who watches and sees but simultaneously is somehow aside. Some >Foucauldian neologisms could also be developed. Wannabe discipliner? > > >- hille > > > > >*** >Hille Koskela >Senior Lecturer >Department of Geography >PO Box 64 >University of Helsinki >00014 Helsinki >Finland >email: [log in to unmask] >webpage: http://www.helsinki.fi/geography/Hille_Koskela_eng.html ---------------------------------------------- Gavin John Douglas Smith PhD Researcher Department of Sociology School of Social Science Edward Wright Building Dunbar Street University of Aberdeen Aberdeen, AB24 3QY Email: [log in to unmask] Tel: +44(01224) 273018 http://www.abdn.ac.uk/socsci/staff/details.php?id=62