Assoc Prof Peta Mitchell

Research Training Coordinator, Vice-Chancellor's Research Fellow

Doctor of Philosophy (University of Queensland)

Peta Mitchell is a Chief Investigator, Vice-Chancellor’s Research Fellow, and Research Training Coordinator in QUT’s Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC). 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

• Digital media, location awareness, and the politics of geodata (DP180100174) (2018–2020). ARC Discovery Project—Lead CI
• RAISE: Rapid analytics interactive scenario explorer toolkit (2015–2017). CRC for Spatial Information (CRCSI) Rapid Spatial Analytics project, led by Prof. Chris Pettit, UNSW
• Locating science: Mapping ecological themes in Australian film and literature (2012–2014). Inspiring Australia science engagement grant, led by A/Prof. Jane Stadler, UQ
• A cultural atlas of Australia: Mediated spaces in film, literature, and theatre (DP110100309) (2011–2013). ARC Discovery Project, led by A/Prof. Jane Stadler, UQ

She is also on the editorial boards of a number of journals and book series, including

• GeoHumanities
• Geographies of Media
• Literary Geographies
• Literary Urban Studies

Projects (Chief investigator)

• Putting end-users in charge of algorithms: Privacy and autonomy by design

Projects

• A cultural atlas of Australia
• Digital media, location awareness, and the politics of geodata
• RAISE: Rapid Analytics Interactive Scenario Explorer

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