Peter Wikström

I am a researcher in English linguistics, focusing primarily on language and interaction in social media. I mainly work with textual materials from popular social media platforms, but often combine this with multimodal discourse analysis.

Since 2018, my research has mainly focused on political discourse and metadiscourse in social media. I have also done a postdoc in educational studies on how the application Snapchat is used by youth in the context of Swedish upper-secondary school. Together with Erica Sandlund, I’m currently working on the project Non-apologies: The reception of public apologies in mediated interaction in the era of #MeToo (Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation, Reg. no P19-02313:1), which concerns discourse practices in both traditional and new media focusing on how public apologies connected to the #MeToo movement are received and rejected.

I am also collaborating with Tobias Hübinette on the project The Swedish r-word (Swedish Research Council Reg. no 2019-03291), which concerns uses and negotiations of the terms “race” and “race” in contemporary Swedish online and social media-based discourse.

Publications:

Wikström, P. (2016). when I need/want to: Normativity, identity, and form in user construals of “talk-like” tweeting. Discourse, Context & Media, 14, 54–62. http://doi.org/http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dcm.2016.09.003
Wikström, P. (2016). No one is “pro-politically correct”: Positive construals of political correctness in Twitter conversations. Nordic Journal of English Studies, 15(2), 159–170.
Wikström, P. (2017). I tweet like I talk: Aspects of speech and writing on Twitter. Karlstad University Press.
Olin-Scheller, C., Tanner, M., Asplund, S.-B., Kontio, J., & Wikström, P. (2020). Social Excursions During the In-between Spaces of Lessons. Students’ Smartphone Use in the Upper Secondary School Classroom. Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/00313831.2020.1739132