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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. ������ý 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