{"id":8318,"date":"2013-03-24T09:00:58","date_gmt":"2013-03-24T13:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=8318"},"modified":"2013-03-24T04:58:27","modified_gmt":"2013-03-24T08:58:27","slug":"the-history-of-applause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/the-history-of-applause\/","title":{"rendered":"The History Of Applause"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/032413_0729_TheHistoryO1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Megan Garber took a look at the history of applause:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Applause appears to go back centuries and seems to unite us across cultures.<\/li>\n<li>Applause really came to the fore during the Roman Empire when leaders used applause as a gauge to measure the audience&#8217;s reaction to their speeches\u2026and those of their opponents.<\/li>\n<li>In the Empire competing politicians would also hire individuals to applaud their own speeches, and heckle those of their opponents.<\/li>\n<li>When Joseph Stalin entered conferences in Soviet Russia audience members who didn&#8217;t clap for long enough would be arrested.<\/li>\n<li>In the modern era applause has lost a lot of its nuances. It only happens at certain times, and audience members either give all or nothing. It is no longer a dialogue with the audience, but, instead, a brute transaction that is expected rather than rewarded.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the rise of automated laugh tracks, how Facebook is changing the nature of applause, and more over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2013\/03\/a-brief-history-of-applause-the-big-data-of-the-ancient-world\/274014\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2013\/03\/a-brief-history-of-applause-the-big-data-of-the-ancient-world\/274014\/\">The Atlantic<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Megan Garber took a look at the history of applause: Applause appears to go back centuries and seems to unite us across cultures. Applause really came to the fore during the Roman Empire when leaders used applause as a gauge to measure the audience&#8217;s reaction to their speeches\u2026and those of their opponents. In the Empire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/032413_0729_TheHistoryO1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8318"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8324,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8318\/revisions\/8324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}