Prof Peta Mitchell

Professor, School of Communication

Doctor of Philosophy (University of Queensland)

Peta Mitchell is Professor of Digital Media 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).

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) (2018–2021). 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

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