Professor Peta Mitchell
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Communication,
Digital Media
Biography
Peta Mitchell is a Professor of Digital Media in QUT's School of Communication and Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC), where she leads the Urban Media and Digital Geographies Research Group. She is Director of Research Training for QUT's Faculty of Creative Industries, Education, and Social Justice. In 2023, Peta was appointed to serve a three-year term on the Australian Research Council's ARC College of Experts.Peta's research explores the connections among space, place, society, and the digital, focusing on digital and media geographies, digital inclusion, and everyday digital and data cultures. She is author of Cartographic Strategies of Postmodernity (2008) and Contagious Metaphor (2012) and co-author of Imagined Landscapes: Geovisualizing Australian Spatial Narratives (2016). 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) (2018–2022). ARC Discovery Project—Lead CI.
- RAISE: Rapid analytics interactive scenario explorer toolkit (2016–2019). CRC for Spatial Information (CRCSI)/Frontier SI 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.
Her full list of publications can be found here: https://eprints.qut.edu.au/view/person/Mitchell,_Peta.html
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Personal details
Positions
- Professor
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Communication,
Digital Media
Keywords
digital geographies, media geography, network/contagion theory, digital methods, digital media, social media, locative/mobile media
Research field
Communication and media studies, Cultural studies, Human geography
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2020
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy (University of Queensland)
Professional memberships and associations
Publications
- Mitchell, P., Foth, M. & Rittenbruch, M. (2023). Digital geographies and the location economy: Towards a transdisciplinary research agenda. In T. Osborne & P. Jones (Eds.), A research agenda for digital geographies (pp. 19–25). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/229622
- Mitchell, P., Foth, M. & Anastasiu, I. (2022). Geographies of locative apps. In PC. Adams & B. Warf (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Media Geographies (pp. 183–195). Routledge. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/203773
- Mitchell, P., (2022). Geo-locations. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Literary Theory. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/211861
- Mann, M., Mitchell, P. & Foth, M. (2024). Between surveillance and technological solutionism: A critique of privacy-preserving apps for COVID-19 contact-tracing. New Media & Society, 26(7), 4099–4117. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/232390
- 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, 71(9), 1103–1115. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/200269
- Mitchell, P. & Muench, F. (2019). #Contagion. In C. Borch (Ed.), Imitation, contagion, suggestion: On mimesis and society (Culture, Economy and the Social) (pp. 107–125). Routledge. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/115830
- Burgess, J., Mitchell, P. & Muench, F. (2019). Social media rituals: The uses of celebrity death in digital culture. In Z. Papacharissi (Ed.), A Networked Self and Birth, Life, Death (pp. 224–239). Routledge. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/112212
- Stadler, J., Mitchell, P. & Carleton, S. (2016). Imagined landscapes: Geovisualizing Australian spatial narratives [The Spatial Humanities series]. Indiana University Press. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/88018
- Mitchell, P., (2012). Contagious metaphor. Bloomsbury Academic. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/69216
- Mitchell, P., (2008). Cartographic strategies of postmodernity: the figure of the map in contemporary theory and fiction. Routledge. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/69236
QUT ePrints
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Awards
- 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.
Selected research projects
- Title
- Advancing Digital Inclusion in Low Income Australian Families
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- LP190100677
- Start year
- 2021
- Keywords
- 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
Projects listed above are funded by Australian Competitive Grants. Projects funded from other sources are not listed due to confidentiality agreements.
Supervision
Current supervisions
- Participatory Design of a Data-Agnostic Smart City Framework
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Markus Rittenbruch, Professor Marcus Foth - PhD, Mentoring Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Timothy Graham, Dr Benjamin Nicoll
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
- Smart urban governance for more-than-human future(s) (2024)
- Negotiating privacy and trust in the geoaware smart city (2023)
- Rohingya diaspora and everyday digital media practices: (Im)mobility, identity and integration (2023)
- A Controversy Analysis of Tesla's (Big) Battery in Australia (2022)
- Digital Media and Hijra Identity: Understanding Community-Building and Self-Representations Among Hijra Community-Based Organisations in India (2021)
- Superfood Me: Negotiating Australia's Post-Gourmet Food Culture (2021)
- Dating, Digital Media, and Diaspora: Contextualising the Cultural Uses of Tinder and Tantan Among Australian Chinese Diasporas (2020)
- Digitally Mediated Martyrdom: The Visual Politics of Posthumous Images in the Popular Struggle for Social Justice (2020)
- 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)
Supervision topics
The supervisions listed above are only a selection.