{"id":7410,"date":"2020-05-06T21:56:28","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T21:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/?p=7410"},"modified":"2020-05-07T16:04:53","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T16:04:53","slug":"2020-spring-faculty-grant-winner-scott-kushner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/2020-spring-faculty-grant-winner-scott-kushner\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Kushner&#8217;s work &#8220;Crowd Control,&#8221; 2020 Faculty Grant Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How does a mass of people become an audience?&nbsp; Through effective crowd control, technologies that channel flows of bodies. &nbsp;Scott Kushner&#8217;s project&nbsp;\u201cCrowd Control: Organizing Audiences around Spectacle in the Industrial Era\u201d&nbsp;uses archival evidence to show the ways that Industrial-era crowd control technologies sought to organize masses into docile audiences.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By rationalizing the masses that formed around cultural events, technologies such as turnstiles, bleachers, stanchions, and barriers framed crowd control in terms of maintaining order and reducing risk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How does a mass of people become an audience?&nbsp; Through effective crowd control, technologies that channel flows of bodies. &nbsp;Scott Kushner&#8217;s project&nbsp;\u201cCrowd Control: Organizing Audiences around Spectacle in the Industrial Era\u201d&nbsp;uses archival evidence to show the ways that Industrial-era crowd control technologies sought to organize masses into docile audiences.&nbsp; By rationalizing the masses that formed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3261,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[195,171,149,158,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-195","category-faculty-grants","category-facultynews","category-news","category-spring"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3261"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7410"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7826,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7410\/revisions\/7826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}