
Doctor of Philosophy Subject Media and Communication Studies (Karlstad University)
I am a Professor of Computational Communication in the School of Communication at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia. I am Chief Investigator in QUT's Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC) and Associate Investigator in the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision Making and Society (ADM+S).
I study how technology shapes the consumption and production of culture, and I develop tools and methods for computational communication research.
I publish my research in books and journals, such as the monographs “TikTok - Creativity and culture in short video” (with Bondy Kaye & Jing Zeng) and “The Music Industry: Music in the Cloud” (3rd ed). My journal-based work is published in Social Media + Society, Technovation, Convergence, Int’l Journal of Comm, Economic Inquiry, Popular Music & Society, etc.
Previously I have held several academic leadership positions, including Director of the QUT Digital Media Research Centre, Associate Dean Research in QUT’s Creative Industries Faculty and (founding) Head of the School of Communication at QUT. I have served as a faculty member at Northeastern University (Boston, USA), Jonkoping International Business School (Jonkoping, Sweden) and Karlstad University (Karlstad, Sweden). I received my Ph.D. from Karlstad University in Media and Communication Studies and I am an MScEng graduate from Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden). Before my academic career, I worked in the European media and telecom industry where I held positions in business development and strategy consulting.
Additional information
- Kaye, D., Zeng, J. & Wikstrom, P. (2022). TikTok: Creativity and Culture in Short Video. Polity Press. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/233809
- Bourreau, M., Moreau, F. & Wikstrom, P. (2022). Does digitization lead to the homogenization of cultural content? Economic Inquiry, 60(1), 427–453. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/211767
- Matamoros Fernandez, A., Rodriguez, A. & Wikstrom, P. (2022). Humor That Harms? Examining Racist Audio-Visual Memetic Media on TikTok During Covid-19. Media and Communication, 10(2), 180–191. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/229982
- Valdovinos Kaye, D., Rodriguez, A., Langton, K. & Wikstrom, P. (2021). You Made This? I Made This: Practices of Authorship and (Mis)Attribution on TikTok. International Journal of Communication, 15, 3195–3215. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/206098
- Wikstrom, P., (2020). The Music Industry: Music in the Cloud (3rd Edition). Polity Press. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/199393
- Bruns, A., Moon, B., Muench, F., Wikstrom, P., Stieglitz, S., Brachten, F. & Ross, B. (2018). Detecting Twitter bots that share SoundCloud tracks. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Social Media and Society, 251–255. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/120102
- Wikstrom, P. & DeFillippi, R. (2016). Business innovation and disruption in the music industry. Edward Elgar Publishing. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/89176
- Wikstrom, P., von Rimscha, M. & Naldi, L. (2014). Dynamic capabilities and performance: An empirical study of audiovisual producers in Europe. International Studies of Management and Organization, 44(4), 63–82. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/79983
- Wikstrom, P. & Ellonen, H. (2012). The impact of social media features on print media firms' online business models. Journal of Media Business Studies, 9(3), 63–80. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/67834
- Ellonen, H., Wikstrom, P. & Jantunen, A. (2009). Linking dynamic-capability portfolios and innovation outcomes. Technovation, 29(11), 753–762. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/67840
- Title
- Australian Cultural and Creative Activity: A Population and Hotspot Analysis
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- LP160101724
- Start year
- 2017
- Keywords
- Title
- Amplifying Public Value: Scholarly Contributions' Impact on Public Debate
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- LP160100205
- Start year
- 2016
- Keywords
- Title
- Music Usage Metrics and the Future of the Australian Music Industry
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- LP150100156
- Start year
- 2016
- Keywords
- Imaginary Containers and Imaginary Coins: e-publishing using smart contracts
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Daniel Angus - The changing landscape of Indigenous screen culture
Professional Doctorate, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Kylie Pappalardo, Dr Jessa Rogers
- Golden Pagodas and Platinum Albums: Developing and Decolonizing Copyright in Myanmar (2021)
- The Rule of Law in Platform Governance: An Empirical Evaluation of the Moderation of Images Depicting Women's Bodies on Instagram (2020)
- Transparency, Technology and Trust: Music Metrics and Cultural Distortion (2020)
- Measuring the Networked Public - Exploring Network Science Methods for Large Scale Online Media Studies (2019)
- The Role of Organizational Integrity in Responses to Pressures: A Case Study of Australian Newspapers (2018)
- Sharism and Social Awareness of the Chinese One Child Generation: Urban Youth and Digital Networks (2015)
- Ways forward: Effectual and causal approaches to innovation in the Swedish magazine industry (2014)
- Consumer Perception of Product Placement: The Relationship between Perceptions and Attitudes towards Movies and Placed claims (2011)
- Changing Consumption Behavior of Net Generation and the Adoption of Streaming Music Services : Extending the Technology Acceptance Model to Account for Streaming Music Services (2010)