Publications
Preprints
Wilderom, B.R., Price, T., & Heitland, T. (2024) AI-Augmented Cultural Sociology: Guidelines for LLM-Assisted Text Analysis and an Illustrative Example. SocArXiv.
Papers published
Wilderom, B.R., & Van Venrooij, A.T. (2025). The dance of markets and movements: The emergence and development of dance genres in the US, UK, and the Netherlands, 1985–2005. Forthcoming in Poetics, SocArXiv.
Arda, L., Esposito, G., & Wilderom, B.R. (2024). Sense and Sensibility: narrative strategies shaping megaproject development, Project Leadership & Society, 5, 1-13.
Eads, A., Schofield, A., Mahootian, F., Mimno, D. & Wilderom, B.R. (2021). Separating the wheat from the chaff: A topic and keyword-based procedure for identifying research-relevant text. Poetics, 86, 1-19.
Wilderom, B.R., & Van Venrooij, A.T. (2019). Intersecting fields: The influence of proximate field dynamics on the development of electronic/dance music in the US and UK. Poetics, 77, 1-16.
Media appearances
“How did dance music go from underground to mainstream?” Interview for UvA - Social Sciences & Behaviour Youtube Channel.
“Nederland, land van kaas, molens en gabber.” Interview in Trouw.
“En zo werd house hot.” Interview in Parool.
“Waarom Amerikanen house niet begrijpen.” Podcast by Onder Mediadoctoren (Dutch language podcast series with media researchers). Tip :-)
“Standing on the shoulders of punk: the early years of dance.” Press release by the University of Amsterdam, available in English and Dutch. Interview and text by Joost van Tilburg.
Papers in preparation
Related to PhD
When existing genre communities adopt new genres: combining network and field perspectives to explain the rise of trance music. Status: revise and resubmit at Cultural Sociology.
How disqualification leads to legitimation: dance music as a societal threat, legitimate leisure activity and established art in a British web of fields, 1985-2005. With Giselinde Kuipers and Alex van Venrooij. Status: will be submitted in due course.
Unrelated to PhD
The moral affordances of online sex talk: Sexual meaning-making and the creation of moral spaces on a Dutch discussion forum. With Myra Bosman and Giselinde Kuipers. Status: Revise and resubmit at The Sociological Review.