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.

Mitchell P, (2020) Geo-locations, The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature p1-19
Mann M, Mitchell P, Foth M, Anastasiu Cioaca I, (2020) #BlockSidewalk to Barcelona: Technological sovereignty and the social license to operate smart cities, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology p1103-1115
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 p332-347
Dehghan E, Bruns A, Mitchell P, Moon B, (2020) Discourse-analytical studies on social media platforms: A data-driven mixed-methods approach, Produsing Theory in a Digital World 3.0: The Intersection of Audiences and Production in Contemporary Theory p159-177
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, (2020) Today's Internet for tomorrow's cities: On algorithmic culture and urban imaginaries, Second International Handbook of Internet Research p725-746
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

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
The Agility Ecosystem: Can Application of Agility Theory Transform Contemporary Emergency Management?
Masters by Research, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Melissa Haswell, Dr Paul Barnes
Digital Media and Hijra Identity: Understanding Community Building and Self - Representations Among Hijra Community - Based Organisations in India
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Elija Cassidy
A controversy analysis of Tesla's (big) battery in Australia
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Jean Burgess, Dr Ariadna Matamoros Fernandez
Negotiating privacy and trust in the geoaware smart city
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Markus Rittenbruch
Rohingya Diaspora: Negotiating Transnational Identity and Integration in the 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

Associate Professor Peta Mitchell

Awards and recognition

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

Current supervisions

Completed supervisions (Doctorate)