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Doctor of Philosophy (University of Queensland)
Peta Mitchell is Professor of Digital Media in QUT's School of Communication and Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC), where she leads the Urban Media and Digital Geographies Research Group. She is Research Integrity Advisor for QUT's Faculty of Creative Industries, Education, and Social Justice.
Peta's research explores the connections among space, place, society, and the digital, focusing on digital and media geographies, everyday digital and data cultures, digital inclusion, and network contagion. She is author of Cartographic Strategies of Postmodernity (2008) and Contagious Metaphor (2012) and co-author of Imagined Landscapes: Geovisualizing Australian Spatial Narratives (2016). Peta leads the ARC Discovery project Digital media, location awareness, and the politics of geodata, which aims to enhance public understanding of personal location data and geoprivacy. 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) (2018–2022). ARC Discovery Project—Lead CI.
- RAISE: Rapid analytics interactive scenario explorer toolkit (2016–2019). CRC for Spatial Information (CRCSI)/Frontier SI 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
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., Foth, M. & Anastasiu, I. (2022). Geographies of locative apps. In PC. Adams & B. Warf (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Media Geographies (pp. 183–195). Routledge. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/203773
- Mitchell, P., (2022). Geo-locations. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Literary Theory. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/211861
- Mann, M., Mitchell, P. & Foth, M. (2022). Between surveillance and technological solutionism: A critique of privacy-preserving apps for COVID-19 contact-tracing. New Media & Society. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/232390
- Sheikh, H., Foth, M. & Mitchell, P. (2023). More-than-human city-region foresight: multispecies entanglements in regional governance and planning. Regional Studies, 57(4), 642–655. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/227913
- 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, 71(9), 1103–1115. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/200269
- Mitchell, P. & Muench, F. (2019). #Contagion. In C. Borch (Ed.), Imitation, contagion, suggestion: On mimesis and society (Culture, Economy and the Social) (pp. 107–125). Routledge. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/115830
- Burgess, J., Mitchell, P. & Muench, F. (2019). Social media rituals: The uses of celebrity death in digital culture. In Z. Papacharissi (Ed.), A Networked Self and Birth, Life, Death (pp. 224–239). Routledge. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/112212
- Mitchell, P., (2017). Contagion, virology, autoimmunity: Derrida's rhetoric of contamination. Parallax, 23(1), 77–93. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/101897
- Mitchell, P. & Highfield, T. (2017). Mediated geographies of everyday life: - Navigating the ambient, augmented and algorithmic geographies of geomedia. Ctrl-Z: new media philosophy, 7, 1–5. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/112671
- Stadler, J., Mitchell, P. & Carleton, S. (2016). Imagined landscapes: Geovisualizing Australian spatial narratives [The Spatial Humanities series]. Indiana University Press. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/88018
- Title
- Advancing Digital Inclusion in Low Income Australian Families
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- LP190100677
- Start year
- 2021
- 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
- Participatory Design of a Data-Agnostic Smart City Framework
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Markus Rittenbruch, Professor Marcus Foth - Negotiating privacy and trust in the geoaware smart city
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Markus Rittenbruch - Smart Urban Governance for More-than-Human Future(s)
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Marcus Foth
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Timothy Graham, Professor Daniel Angus
- Rohingya diaspora and everyday digital media practices: (Im)mobility, identity and integration (2023)
- A Controversy Analysis of Tesla's (Big) Battery in Australia (2022)
- Digital Media and Hijra Identity: Understanding Community-Building and Self-Representations Among Hijra Community-Based Organisations in India (2021)
- Superfood Me: Negotiating Australia's Post-Gourmet Food Culture (2021)
- 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)