Professor Patrik Wikstrom

Biography

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 digital technologies shape music cultures and economies. Most of my recent work has been about how recommender systems shape the consumption and production of digital culture. I am a methodologist with a passion for developing computational tools and methods for my own work and fellow social science and humanities researchers.

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.