QUT | Staff Profiles | Peta Mitchell

Name

Associate Professor Peta Mitchell

Position(s)

Associate Professor
Creative Industries Faculty,
School of Communication,
Digital Media Research Centre

Discipline *

Communication and Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Human Geography

Phone

+61 7 3138 8007

Email

peta.mitchell@qut.edu.au

Location

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Identifiers and profiles

Qualifications

Doctor of Philosophy (University of Queensland)

Professional memberships and associations

Keywords

locative/mobile media, digital geographies, network/contagion theory, digital methods, digital media, social media

* Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008

Peta Mitchell is Associate Professor 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.
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

Her full list of publications can be found here: https://eprints.qut.edu.au/view/person/Mitchell,_Peta.html

This information has been contributed by Associate Professor Peta Mitchell.

Over the course of two decades, I have taught across Media, Communication, and Cultural Studies; Writing, Editing, and Publishing; and Literary Studies. For nearly a decade, I ran the undergraduate Writing program at The University of Queensland. Since moving to QUT in 2014, I have focused on higher-degree research training in digital methods and ethics for digital media research.

This information has been contributed by Associate Professor Peta Mitchell.

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, (2019) 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

For more publications by this staff member, visit QUT ePrints, the University's research repository.

I am interested and have expertise in supervising projects related to
- locative/mobile/geosocial media
- digital geographies and geovisualisation
- media geography
- digital ethics
- digital diversity
- digital diaspora
- network/contagion theory,

Current supervisions

Shifting meanings of privacy in the geoaware smart city
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Markus Rittenbruch
A controversy analysis of Tesla's (big) battery in Australia
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Jean Burgess, Dr Ariadna Matamoros Fernandez
Networked Discursive Alliances: Antagonism, Agonism, and the Dynamics of Discursive Struggles in the Australian Twittersphere
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Axel Bruns, Dr Brenda Moon
Dating apps and cultural contexts - investigating how Australia-based Chinese users present themselves on Tinder and Tantan
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Elija Cassidy
Superfood Me: Negotiating Australia's Post-Gourmet Food Culture
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Stephen Harrington, Dr Jason Sternberg
Digitally Mediated Martyrdom: The Visual politics of Posthumous Images in the Popular Struggle for Social Justice
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Jean Burgess, Dr Tim Highfield, Dr T.J. Thomson
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
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
Rohingya Identity: Understanding Ethnic Media, Conflict and 'Connected Refugees' in Digital Age
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Michael Dezuanni

Completed supervisions (Doctorate)

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)

Associate Professor Peta Mitchell

Awards and recognition

Grants and projects (Category 1: Australian Competitive Grants only)

Current supervisions

Completed supervisions (Doctorate)