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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 (2016–2019). 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
Projects (Chief investigator)
- Mentoring Digital Mentors - facilitating impactful digital ability programs for Australians at risk of digital exclusion
- Northern Australia Communications Analysis: investigating digital inclusion infrastructure, governance, policy and intervention
Projects
- A cultural atlas of Australia
- Digital media, location awareness, and the politics of geodata
- Putting end-users in charge of algorithms: Privacy and autonomy by design
- RAISE: Rapid Analytics Interactive Scenario Explorer
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 PR, Muench FV, (2019) #Contagion, Imitation, contagion, suggestion: On mimesis and society (Culture, Economy and the Social) p107-125
- Burgess JE, Mitchell PR, Muench F, (2019) Social media rituals: The uses of celebrity death in digital culture, A networked self and birth, life, death (A Networked Self series) p224-239
- Light B, Mitchell PR, Wikstrom PL, (2018) Big Data, method and the ethics of location: A case study of a hookup app for men who have sex with men, Social Media and Society p1-10
- Estrada Grajales C, Foth M, Mitchell PR, (2018) Urban imaginaries of co-creating the city: Local activism meets citizen peer-production, Journal of Peer Production p1-18
- Foth M, Mitchell PR, Estrada Grajales C, (2018) Today's Internet for tomorrow's cities: On algorithmic culture and urban imaginaries, Second international handbook of internet research p1-22
- Burgess JE, Mitchell PR, Highfield TJ, (2018) Automating the digital everyday: an introduction, Media International Australia Incorporating Culture and Policy p6-10
- Mitchell PR, (2017) Literary geography and the digital: The emergence of neogeography, The Routledge handbook of literature and space (Routledge Literature Handbooks) p85-94
- Mitchell PR, (2017) Contagion, virology, autoimmunity: Derrida's rhetoric of contamination, Parallax p77-93
- Mitchell PR, Highfield TJ, (2017) Mediated geographies of everyday life: - Navigating the ambient, augmented and algorithmic geographies of geomedia, Ctrl-Z: New Media Philosophy p1-5
- Stadler J, Mitchell PR, Carleton S, (2016) Imagined landscapes: Geovisualizing Australian spatial narratives [The Spatial Humanities series] p1-238
- 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
- A controversy analysis of Tesla's (big) battery in Australia
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Jean Burgess - Dating apps and cultural contexts - investigating how Australia-based Chinese users present themselves on Tinder and Tantan
PhD, Mentoring Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Elija Cassidy - The Dynamics of Discursive Struggle in the Australian Twittersphere
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Axel Bruns, Dr Brenda Moon - Faces of Death and Injustice: Visual Social Media and Emotion in Activist Political Discourse and Popular Social Movements
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Tim Highfield, Professor Jean Burgess - Hijra Community-Based Organizations' Use of Social Media in India: Understanding Community Building and Representation Through Facebook
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Elija Cassidy - Constructing the 'everyday foodie': Contemporary consumption and identity
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Stephen Harrington, Dr Jason Sternberg - Network centric emergency management: options for filling a strategic void in interoperability thinking
Masters by Research, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Melissa Haswell, Dr Paul Barnes
- 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)