ICYMI: Decoder Ring: What’s Really Going On Inside a Mosh Pit?
Slate Technology
00:00
The Problems With Crowd Behavior at Big Events
Woodstock 99 was a concert festival infamous for being as violent as the original Woodstock. James Spooner also remembers Nazi punks and skinheads it shows when he was growing up. Chris Cocking is a crowd management expert who teaches social psychology at the University of Brighton. In most crowd disasters where people are killed or injured, it's usually because of structures or interventions outside of the crowd itself. If in the next month you end up going to a show with Moshbets, I ask one of your sisters if they'd be willing to record you.
Play episode from 21:28
Transcript
