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Doctor of Philosophy (University of Queensland)
Peta Mitchell is Associate Professor in QUT’s Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC) and School of Communication. Her research focuses on digital geographies, location awareness and mobile media, algorithmic culture, and network contagion. Peta is author of Cartographic Strategies of Postmodernity (Routledge, 2008) and Contagious Metaphor (Bloomsbury Academic, 2012) and co-author of Imagined Landscapes: Geovisualizing Australian Spatial Narratives (Indiana UP, 2016). She is also co-founder of the Cultural Atlas of Australia, an ARC-funded digital mapping project that explores Australian locations as they are represented in and through films, novels, and plays. Peta’s current and past funded research projects include
- Advancing digital inclusion in low income Australian families (LP190100677) (2020–2023). ARC Linkage Project.
- Digital media, location awareness, and the politics of geodata (DP180100174) (2018–2021). ARC Discovery Project—Lead CI.
- RAISE: Rapid analytics interactive scenario explorer toolkit (2016–2019). CRC for Spatial Information (CRCSI) Rapid Spatial Analytics project.
- Locating science: Mapping ecological themes in Australian film and literature (2012–2014). Inspiring Australia science engagement grant.
- A cultural atlas of Australia: Mediated spaces in film, literature, and theatre (DP110100309) (2011–2013). ARC Discovery Project.
She is also on the editorial boards of a number of journals and book series, including
- Digital Geography and Society
- GeoHumanities
- Geographies of Media
- Literary Geographies
- Literary Urban Studies
Her full list of publications can be found here: https://eprints.qut.edu.au/view/person/Mitchell,_Peta.html
Projects
- Geocultural Research & the New Spatial Turn: Understanding Socio-Cultural Phenomena through Geovisualisation
- Participatory Visualisation & Assessment of Risks: A Crowdsourcing Approach
- Putting end-users in charge of algorithms: Privacy and autonomy by design
- RAISE: Rapid Analytics Interactive Scenario Explorer Toolkit
Additional information
- Type
- Fellowships
- Reference year
- 2014
- Details
- Vice Chancellor's Research Fellowship, Queensland University of Technology (2014-2018)
- Type
- Fellowships
- Reference year
- 2009
- Details
- Faculty research fellowship, Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, University of Queensland
- Type
- Visiting Professorships/Fellowships
- Reference year
- 2009
- Details
- Visiting fellowship, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH), University of Edinburgh.
- Mitchell P, (2020) Geo-locations, The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature p1-19
- Mann M, Mitchell P, Foth M, Anastasiu Cioaca I, (2020) #BlockSidewalk to Barcelona: Technological sovereignty and the social license to operate smart cities, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology p1103-1115
- Estrada Grajales C, Foth M, Mitchell P, Caldwell G, (2020) The museum in the smart city: the role of cultural institutions in co-creating urban imaginaries, The Routledge Companion to Smart Cities p332-347
- Dehghan E, Bruns A, Mitchell P, Moon B, (2020) Discourse-analytical studies on social media platforms: A data-driven mixed-methods approach, Produsing Theory in a Digital World 3.0: The Intersection of Audiences and Production in Contemporary Theory p159-177
- Pettit C, Shi Y, Han H, Rittenbruch M, Foth M, Lieske S, Van De Nouwelant R, Mitchell P, Leao S, Christensen B, Jamal M, (2020) A new toolkit for land value analysis and scenario planning, Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science p1490-1507
- Mitchell P, Muench F, (2019) #Contagion, Imitation, contagion, suggestion: On mimesis and society (Culture, Economy and the Social) p107-125
- Burgess J, Mitchell P, Muench F, (2019) Social media rituals: The uses of celebrity death in digital culture, A Networked Self and Birth, Life, Death p224-239
- Foth M, Mitchell P, Estrada Grajales C, (2020) Today's Internet for tomorrow's cities: On algorithmic culture and urban imaginaries, Second International Handbook of Internet Research p725-746
- Riedlinger M, Chapman C, Mitchell P, (2019) Location awareness and geodata sharing practices of Australian smartphone users
- Mitchell P, (2018) Contagion, virology, autoimmunity: Derrida's rhetoric of contamination, Autoimmunities p1-17
- Title
- Advancing Digital Inclusion in Low Income Australian Families
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- LP190100677
- Start year
- 2020
- Keywords
- Title
- Digital Media, Location Awareness, and the Politics of Geodata
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- DP180100174
- Start year
- 2018
- Keywords
- Superfood Me: Negotiating Australia's Post-Gourmet Food Culture
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Stephen Harrington, Dr Jason Sternberg - The Agility Ecosystem: Can Application of Agility Theory Transform Contemporary Emergency Management?
Masters by Research, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Melissa Haswell, Dr Paul Barnes - Digital Media and Hijra Identity: Understanding Community Building and Self - Representations Among Hijra Community - Based Organisations in India
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Elija Cassidy - A controversy analysis of Tesla's (big) battery in Australia
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Jean Burgess, Dr Ariadna Matamoros Fernandez - Negotiating privacy and trust in the geoaware smart city
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Markus Rittenbruch - Rohingya Diaspora: Negotiating Transnational Identity and Integration in the Digital Age
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Michael Dezuanni - The Machine, the Virus, and Nature: The Role of Agency and Data Governance for More-than-Human Futures
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Marcus Foth
- Dating, Digital Media, and Diaspora: Contextualising the Cultural Uses of Tinder and Tantan Among Australian Chinese Diasporas (2020)
- Digitally Mediated Martyrdom: The Visual Politics of Posthumous Images in the Popular Struggle for Social Justice (2020)
- Networked Discursive Alliances: Antagonism, Agonism, and the Dynamics of Discursive Struggles in the Australian Twittersphere (2020)
- The Right to the Digital City: The Role of Urban Imaginaries in Participatory Citymaking (2019)
- Understanding the Chinese Diaspora: The Identity Construction of Diasporic Chinese in the Age of Digital Media (2017)
- The Labyrinth and the Lacuna: Metafiction's Spatial Figures (2015)
- Situated play in open-ended interactive art environments (2010)
- Time, Space, Self: The Present Tense, Parataxis, and Narration in Memoir (2010)
- Literature¿s Ghosts: Realism and Innovation in the Novels of Christine Brooke-Rose and A. S. Byatt (2008)