Publications
2027
Scholarly publications
Spencer, E. (2027). Green screen choreography, rhythmic belief entrainment and singing deepfakes: Conceptualising contemporary conspiracism on TikTok and YouTube. Manuscript in preparation. In T. Pontara, H. Rogers, & M. Butter (Eds.), Conspiracy Theories and Audiovisual Media Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
Galloway, K., Gamble, S., Harper, P., & Spencer, E. (Eds.) (2027). The Oxford Handbook of Online Music Cultures. Oxford University Press.
2026
Scholarly publications
Spencer, E. (Accepted/In press). Sampling nostalgia, synthesizing far-right sentiment: On the recent career of "L'Amour Toujours". In M. Dunkel, & R. Kopanski (Eds.), Music, Populism and Nationalism in Contemporary Europe Routledge.
Spencer, E. (2026). Musical Weaponization and Belief Entrainment in the Post-Truth Era. Manuscript in preparation. In C. Haworth, E. Spencer, & D. Sofer (Eds.), Music and the Internet: Methodological, Epistemological, and Ethical Orientations Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
Spencer, E., & Haworth, C. (2026). Trolling about their generation: On the subcultural politics, musical coping mechanisms and memetic practices of hyperpop. Manuscript in preparation. In C. Haworth, E. Spencer, & D. Sofer (Eds.), Music and the Internet: Methodological, Epistemological, and Ethical Orientations Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
Haworth, C., Spencer, E., & Sofer, D. (Eds.) (2026). Music and the Internet: Methodological, Epistemological, and Ethical Orientations. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
Spencer, E. (Accepted/In press). Web-based Ways of Listening: Reinventing Empirical Musicology in the Age of Social Media. In C. Canonne, & F. Gribenski (Eds.), New Methods and New Challenges in Empirical Musicology Oxford University Press.
Spencer, E. (Accepted/In press). The Divisiveness of the Bass Music Drop in the North American Festival Setting. In H. C. Rietveld, & T. Young (Eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Electronic Dance Music Cambridge University Press.
2025
Scholarly publications
Spencer, E. (2025). 1999: The dark side of the golden year in an age of (anti-)social media: Embalming the Ephemeral: Online Electronic Music Cultures and Platformization [Panel]. Paper presented at Dancecult Conference 2025, Berlin, Germany.
Spencer, E. (2025). 'Cats for Trump': The dark side of musicalization and ailurophilia in audiovisual online content. Paper presented at Online Symposium: Music and Cats, Luneberg, Germany.
Joana Freitas, Steven Gamble, Maria Perevedentseva, Spencer, E., & Jenessa Williams (2025). Special Issue: Popular Music and Online Cultures. Journal of Popular Music Studies, 37(4).
Freitas, J., Steven Gamble, Maria Perevedentseva, Spencer, E., & Jenessa Williams (2025). A Collective Vision for Researching Popular Music and Online Cultures: Introduction to Special Issue 'Popular Music and Online Cultures'. Journal of Popular Music Studies, 37(4), 1-18. [DOI]
2023
Scholarly publications
Spencer, E., Tuters, M., & Knight, P. (2023). How Real is the Illuminati? Investigating Open Source Conspiracism in the age of Black Lives Matter and Vigilant Citizen(s): Report on Digital Methods Initiative (DMI) Winter School Project. https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/pub/Dmi/WinterSchool2023Illuminati/FINAL%20REPORT%206.2.23.pdf
Spencer, E. (2023). Science and Global Conspiracies. Issues in Science and Technology, 39(4).
Spencer, E. (2023). From Contagion to Imitation: On bass drop memes, trolling repertoires, and the legacy of Gabriel Tarde. In H. Rogers, J. Freitas, & J. F. Porfírio (Eds.), Remediating Sound: Repeatable Culture, YouTube and Music (pp. 51-71). Bloomsbury Academic.
2022
Scholarly publications
Spencer, E. (2022). On Internet Subcultures & PC Music (Part II): A Reappraisal: Music and the internet: towards a digital sociology of music. (University of Birmingham Blogs). University of Birmingham. https://blog.bham.ac.uk/digsocmus/2022/03/14/on-internet-subcultures-and-pc-music-part-2/
Spencer, E. (2022). Music to Vomit to: The dubstep drop, the bass face, and the sound of the social web. In M. Ryynänen, H. Kosonen, & S. Ylönen (Eds.), Cultural Approaches to Disgust and the Visceral (pp. 160-174). Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. [DOI]
2021
Scholarly publications
Spencer, E. (2021). On Internet Subcultures & PC Music (Part I): A Review: Music and the Internet: Towards a Digital Sociology of Music. (University of Birmingham Blogs). University of Birmingham. https://blog.bham.ac.uk/digsocmus/2021/03/25/on-internet-subcultures-and-pc-music-part-1/
2020
Scholarly publications
Spencer, E. (2020). Towards a Digital Sociology of Musical Memes: Music and the Internet: Towards a Digital Sociology of Music. (University of Birmingham Blogs). University of Birmingham. https://blog.bham.ac.uk/digsocmus/2020/10/20/digital-sociology-of-musical-memes/
Spencer, E. (2020). Review of Joe Muggs and Brian David Stevens, ‘Bass, Mids, Tops: An Oral History of Soundsystem Culture’ (MIT Press, 2019). Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture, 12(1), 85-88. [DOI]
Spencer, E. (2020). Touching Sounds: Re-examining audiotactile affect with reference to ASMR YouTube content and musical production practices. In J. Dack, T. Spinks, & A. Stanovic (Eds.), Sound Art and Music: Philosophy, Composition, Performance (pp. 70-92). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
2017
Scholarly publications
Spencer, E. (2017). Re-orientating Spectromorphology and Space-form through a Hybrid Acoustemology. Organised Sound, 22(3), 324-335. [DOI]