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Patrik Wikström

Professor of Computational Communication, Queensland University of Technology

Patrik Wikström is a Professor of Computational Communication in the School of Communication at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, 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).

He publishes his work 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) and in journals such as in Social Media + Society, Technovation, Convergence, Int’l Journal of Comm, Economic Inquiry, Information Economics & Policy, Popular Music & Society, etc.

He has served as a faculty member at Northeastern University (Boston, USA), Jonkoping International Business School (Jonkoping, Sweden) and Karlstad University (Karlstad, Sweden). Wikstrom received his Ph.D. from Karlstad University in Media and Communication Studies and his MScEng degree from Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden). Before his academic career, he worked in the European media and telecom industry where he held positions in business development and strategy consulting.