QUT | Staff Profiles | Peta Mitchell

Name

Associate Professor Peta Mitchell

Position(s)

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

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 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). 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

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.

Estrada Grajales C, Foth M, Mitchell P, Caldwell G, (2020) The museum in the smart city: the role of cultural institutions in co-creating urban imaginaries, The Routledge Companion to Smart Cities p332-348
Pettit C, Shi Y, Han H, Rittenbruch M, Foth M, Lieske S, Van De Nouwelant R, Mitchell P, Leao S, Christensen B, Jamal M, (2020) A new toolkit for land value analysis and scenario planning, Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science p1-18
Mitchell P, Muench F, (2019) #Contagion, Imitation, contagion, suggestion: On mimesis and society (Culture, Economy and the Social) p107-125
Burgess J, Mitchell P, Muench F, (2019) Social media rituals: The uses of celebrity death in digital culture, A Networked Self and Birth, Life, Death p224-239
Foth M, Mitchell P, 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
Riedlinger M, Chapman C, Mitchell P, (2019) Location awareness and geodata sharing practices of Australian smartphone users
Mitchell P, (2018) Contagion, virology, autoimmunity: Derrida's rhetoric of contamination, Autoimmunities p1-17
Light B, Mitchell P, Wikstrom P, (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
Mitchell P, (2017) Literary geography and the digital: The emergence of neogeography, The Routledge handbook of literature and space (Routledge Literature Handbooks) p85-94
Mitchell P, Highfield T, (2017) Mediated geographies of everyday life: - Navigating the ambient, augmented and algorithmic geographies of geomedia, Ctrl-Z: new media philosophy p1-5

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

Superfood Me: Negotiating Australia's Post-Gourmet Food Culture
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Stephen Harrington, Dr Jason Sternberg
Dating, Digital Media, and Diaspora: Contextualising the Cultural Uses of Tinder and Tantan Among Australian Chinese Diasporas
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
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
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
A controversy analysis of Tesla's (big) battery in Australia
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Jean Burgess, Dr Ariadna Matamoros Fernandez
Shifting meanings of privacy in the geoaware smart city
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Markus Rittenbruch
Rohingya Identity: Understanding Ethnic Media, Conflict and 'Connected Refugees' in Digital Age
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Michael Dezuanni
The Machine, the Virus, and Nature: The Role of Agency and Data Governance for More-than-Human Futures
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Marcus Foth

Completed supervisions (Doctorate)

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)
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)