Peta Mitchell
Biographic Data
| ID | 3721165 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peta Mitchell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peta |
| FAMILY NAME | Mitchell |
| SIGNATURE | MITCHELL P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queensland University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4523-6685 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 122 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Work of Digital Inclusion: Exposing the Digital Labour of Community Workers Fostering Digital Participation
This paper presents findings from a national-scale project that worked with disadvantaged communities across Australia to examine digital inclusion in low-income families and the role of social infrastructure (e.g., schools, libraries, charities, government services) in supporting digital participation. Drawing on data collected in interviews and community workshops in an outer urban community with significant socioeconomic challenges, we illumin…
Research Genai: Situating Generative Ai in the Scholarly Economy
This paper charts the emergence of a distinct category of research-dedicated GenAI platforms, which we term Research GenAI or RGAI. These platforms are explicitly marketed to a cross-disciplinary academic audience, promising to automate research discovery and writing tasks, such as identifying/summarising published research, writing literature reviews, conducting data analysis, and synthesising findings. RGAI platforms (e.g., Consensus, Elicit, R…
Integrating the REA model and multisig architecture for blockchain-based supply chain traceability: An organisational-technical approach
Blockchain-enabled supply chain traceability has transitioned from a new concept into a business practice and a customer expectation across industries. This paper explores an organisational-technical approach that integrates the structured business logic of the Resource-Event-Agent (REA) model with the security and accountability of multisig blockchain architecture to enhance blockchain-enabled supply chain traceability. This approach combines (i…
From legislation to obligation: Re-thinking smart urban governance for multispecies justice
Given the rise in Australia's biodiversity and habitat loss, in this paper we explore how smart urban governance—might move beyond its more anthropocentric focus on citizens, civic institutions, and the urban environment to address multispecies justice. Situated in Brisbane, Australia, our research contributes new knowledge (co)produced with stakeholders who identify four anthropocentric barriers within smart urban governance: (1) property owners…
Creative Futuring for More-Than-Human Worlds: Exhibitions as Sites to Ponder Environmental Governance
The article presents the Smart Urban Governance for More-than-Human Future(s) anthology, comprising six speculative creative works. It draws on techniques of futuring as a methodology to explore how creative practice as an act of futuring and exhibitions as sites to ponder environmenta governance can empower more-than-human futures. Reporting on participatory observations and semistructured interviews with the exhibition audience the article posi…
Reparative futures of smart urban governance: A speculative design approach for multispecies justice
In recent years, urban governance within smart city contexts has increasingly turned towards processes and practices of “futuring” to guide city visions and planning. Particularly with the increased focus on sustainability within smart urban governance, these futuring practices often rely on environmental monitoring technologies to guide reparative actions for environmental harms and promote multispecies justice. Yet, these futuring practices oft…
More-than-human smart urban governance: A research agenda
Environmental change is giving rise to more-than-human thinking/practice about cities. At the same time, ‘smart’ thinking/practice about cities driven by technocratic approaches, have been critiqued for reinforcing human exceptionalism. That is, nonhuman nature in cities is increasingly perceived and governed via digital technologies that rarely account for limits to human perception. Here, we offer an alternative and address how digital technolo…
Between surveillance and technological solutionism: A critique of privacy-preserving apps for Covid-19 contact-tracing
In this article, we examine the rise of contact-tracing apps during the first 2 years of the COVID-19 pandemic as a new form of technological solutionism – a technological or techno-social fix that can be deployed at national scale in response to an urgent, supranational problem. A dystopian view saw the rapid development and proliferation of COVID-19 contact-tracing apps as a vanguard technology for surveillance. Expediently deployed as a techno…
More-than-human city-region foresight: Multispecies entanglements in regional governance and planning
Real-time data from urban and rural regions is increasingly being used by policymakers to achieve environmental sustainability goals within smart cities. At the same time, smart urban governance has been criticized for its technocratic and human-centric approach that sacrifices long-term planning for the here-and-now and overlooks the more-than-human in sustainability-related city-region foresight strategies. By reviewing two city-region foresigh…
Co-Designing Planning Support Systems in Urban Science: The Questions They Answer and the Questions They Raise
Big data analytics in smart cities has given rise to the new interdisciplinary field of urban science, which uses data mining, visual analytics, modeling, and simulation to create novel planning support systems. One such system is RAISE (the Rapid Analytics Interactive Scenario Explorer) which assists urban planners and local government authorities with rapid analysis and visualization of land value uplift from proposed transport infrastructure. …
A new toolkit for land value analysis and scenario planning
In the digital era of big data, data analytics and smart cities, a new generation of planning support systems is emerging. The Rapid Analytics Interactive Scenario Explorer is a novel planning support system developed to help planners and policy-makers determine the likely land value uplift associated with the provision of new city infrastructure. The Rapid Analytics Interactive Scenario Explorer toolkit was developed following a user-centred res…
More-than-human participation: Design for Sustainable Smart City Futures
In this forum we highlight innovative thought, design, and research in the area of interaction design and sustainability, illustrating the diversity of approaches across HCI communities. --- Roy Bendor, Editor
A Networked Self and Birth, Life, Death
In 2016, the world mourned the loss of a number of famous people who had been of cultural significance across national and generational boundaries. Each of these deaths not only heralded intense affective and discursive activity on social media of the kind associated with public mourning, but they also enfolded ordinary users’ biographies into public expressions of memory, or provoked adjunctive conversations about other topics. To make sense of …
DoGood: Examining gamification, civic engagement, and collective intelligence
Rat running the G20: Collective intelligence for navigating the disrupted city
Creativity and design to articulate difference in the conflicted city: Collective intelligence in Bogota’s grassroots organisations
Social Media Rituals
This chapter discovers the transformations of celebrity in digital culture, before focusing on celebrity deaths understood as media events. It shows that there are considerable historical continuities between the pre-broadcast, broadcast, and social media-dominated eras in the cultural uses of celebrity, both in everyday life and in public culture. The celebrity death as highly mediated public event is largely a twentieth- and twenty-first-centur…
Automating the digital everyday: An Introduction
This Special Issue brings together a range of social science and humanities perspectives on the relationships among automation, digital media and everyday life. We have aimed to get beyond the current hype and anxieties around self-driving cars, algorithms and robotics, and to achieve a more precise and grounded understanding of exactly what might be meant by automation, how and with what effects it is becoming entangled with everyday life and ho…
Big Data, Method and the Ethics of Location: A Case Study of a Hookup App for Men Who Have Sex with Men
With the rise of geo-social media, location is emerging as a particularly sensitive data point for big data and digital media research. To explore this area, we reflect on our ethics for a study in which we analyze data generated via an app that facilitates public sex among men who have sex with men. The ethical sensitivities around location are further heightened in the context of research into such digital sexual cultures. Public sexual culture…
Contagion, Virology, Autoimmunity: Derrida’s Rhetoric of Contamination
Threaded through Derrida’s body of work is a rhetoric of contamination, one that is intimately bound to the question of metaphor—that is, to the question of language and communication in general. In his reading of Antonin Artaud’s The Theatre and its Double in Writing and Difference (1967), Derrida notes that it is ‘metaphor that Artaud wants to destroy’. Metaphor, the manifestation of the schism between words and their referents, and an inescapa…
Atmospheres: Aesthetics of emotional spaces
This recent translation of Tonino Griffero’s 2010 Atmosferologia: Estetica degli spazi emozionali is a welcome English language addition to a burgeoning corpus of research engaging with space, affe
Imagined Landscapes: Geovisualizing Australian Spatial Narratives
Imagined Landscapes teams geocritical analysis with digital visualization techniques to map and interrogate films, novels, and plays in which space and place figure prominently. Drawing upon A Cultural Atlas of Australia, a database-driven interactive digital map that can be used to identify patterns of representation in Australia’s cultural landscape, the book presents an integrated perspective on the translation of space across narrative forms …
Situated interfaces for engaging citizens on the go
column Share on Situated interfaces for engaging citizens on the go Authors: Luke Hespanhol The University of Sydney The University of SydneyView Profile , Martin Tomitsch The University of Sydney The University of SydneyView Profile , Ian McArthur UNSW Australia UNSW AustraliaView Profile , Joel Fredericks The University of Sydney The University of SydneyView Profile , Ronald Schroeter Queensland University of Technology Queensland University of…
Urban Acupuncture: Hybrid Social and Technological Practices for Hyperlocal Placemaking
This paper considers an emerging planning practice that uses networked connections to interact with urban places and re-create enlivened cities. The paper presents “urban acupuncture” as a new planning approach that broadens communication and strategically targets interventions across the city. Defined as an approach, which, through the use of digital social networks and interactions, involves citizens and planners in place activations in order t…
Imagined Landscapes: Geovisualizing Australian Spatial Narratives
Imagined Landscapes teams geocritical analysis with digital visualization techniques to map and interrogate films, novels, and plays in which space and place figure prominently. Drawing upon A Cultural Atlas of Australia, a database-driven interactive digital map that can be used to identify patterns of representation in Australia’s cultural landscape, the book presents an integrated perspective on the translation of space across narrative forms …
Atmospheres: Aesthetics of emotional spaces
This recent translation of Tonino Griffero’s 2010 Atmosferologia: Estetica degli spazi emozionali is a welcome English language addition to a burgeoning corpus of research engaging with space, affe
What Might GeoHumanities Do? Possibilities, Practices, Publics, and Politics
This article draws together seven practitioners and scholars from across the diffuse GeoHumanities community to reflect on the pasts and futures of the GeoHumanities. Far from trying to circle the intellectual wagons around orthodoxies of practice or intent, or to determine possibilities in advance, these contributions and the accompanying commentary seek to create connections across the diverse communities of knowledge and practice that constitu…
More-than-human participation: Design for Sustainable Smart City Futures
In this forum we highlight innovative thought, design, and research in the area of interaction design and sustainability, illustrating the diversity of approaches across HCI communities. --- Roy Bendor, Editor
Community engagement for sustainable urban futures
This special issue of Futures is concerned with community engagement strategies that help to inform medium and long-term futures studies in order
More-than-human city-region foresight: Multispecies entanglements in regional governance and planning
Real-time data from urban and rural regions is increasingly being used by policymakers to achieve environmental sustainability goals within smart cities. At the same time, smart urban governance has been criticized for its technocratic and human-centric approach that sacrifices long-term planning for the here-and-now and overlooks the more-than-human in sustainability-related city-region foresight strategies. By reviewing two city-region foresigh…
Using communicative ecology theory to scope the emerging role of social media in the evolution of urban food systems
Reparative futures of smart urban governance: A speculative design approach for multispecies justice
In recent years, urban governance within smart city contexts has increasingly turned towards processes and practices of “futuring” to guide city visions and planning. Particularly with the increased focus on sustainability within smart urban governance, these futuring practices often rely on environmental monitoring technologies to guide reparative actions for environmental harms and promote multispecies justice. Yet, these futuring practices oft…
Contagion, Virology, Autoimmunity: Derrida’s Rhetoric of Contamination
Threaded through Derrida’s body of work is a rhetoric of contamination, one that is intimately bound to the question of metaphor—that is, to the question of language and communication in general. In his reading of Antonin Artaud’s The Theatre and its Double in Writing and Difference (1967), Derrida notes that it is ‘metaphor that Artaud wants to destroy’. Metaphor, the manifestation of the schism between words and their referents, and an inescapa…
More-than-human smart urban governance: A research agenda
Environmental change is giving rise to more-than-human thinking/practice about cities. At the same time, ‘smart’ thinking/practice about cities driven by technocratic approaches, have been critiqued for reinforcing human exceptionalism. That is, nonhuman nature in cities is increasingly perceived and governed via digital technologies that rarely account for limits to human perception. Here, we offer an alternative and address how digital technolo…
Between surveillance and technological solutionism: A critique of privacy-preserving apps for Covid-19 contact-tracing
In this article, we examine the rise of contact-tracing apps during the first 2 years of the COVID-19 pandemic as a new form of technological solutionism – a technological or techno-social fix that can be deployed at national scale in response to an urgent, supranational problem. A dystopian view saw the rapid development and proliferation of COVID-19 contact-tracing apps as a vanguard technology for surveillance. Expediently deployed as a techno…
Geographies/Aerographies of Contagion
In this paper I argue that geography, contagion, and the element of air have historically overlapped in interesting ways and that they continue to do so. By tracing metaphors of air, wind, miasma, and contagion through literary works that span nearly three centuries, I argue that the element of air tends to signify, in cultural expression, a more ambiguous, affective form of contagion that is also bound up with the spread of ideas and information
Network action research
Current literature stresses the significance of networks and network theory in both social as well as technical domains. Not only is the role of networked technologies (such as mobile phones and the internet) in everyday life being scrutinized, but network theory is re-shaping an understanding of how social change and community interaction occurs. In this article, I build on these developments to propose network action research as a methodologica…
From legislation to obligation: Re-thinking smart urban governance for multispecies justice
Given the rise in Australia's biodiversity and habitat loss, in this paper we explore how smart urban governance—might move beyond its more anthropocentric focus on citizens, civic institutions, and the urban environment to address multispecies justice. Situated in Brisbane, Australia, our research contributes new knowledge (co)produced with stakeholders who identify four anthropocentric barriers within smart urban governance: (1) property owners…
Site-specific mobility and connection in Korea: Bangs (rooms) between public and private spaces
Creative Futuring for More-Than-Human Worlds: Exhibitions as Sites to Ponder Environmental Governance
The article presents the Smart Urban Governance for More-than-Human Future(s) anthology, comprising six speculative creative works. It draws on techniques of futuring as a methodology to explore how creative practice as an act of futuring and exhibitions as sites to ponder environmenta governance can empower more-than-human futures. Reporting on participatory observations and semistructured interviews with the exhibition audience the article posi…
Big Data, Method and the Ethics of Location: A Case Study of a Hookup App for Men Who Have Sex with Men
With the rise of geo-social media, location is emerging as a particularly sensitive data point for big data and digital media research. To explore this area, we reflect on our ethics for a study in which we analyze data generated via an app that facilitates public sex among men who have sex with men. The ethical sensitivities around location are further heightened in the context of research into such digital sexual cultures. Public sexual culture…
Network action research
Current literature stresses the significance of networks and network theory in both social as well as technical domains. Not only is the role of networked technologies (such as mobile phones and the internet) in everyday life being scrutinized, but network theory is re-shaping an understanding of how social change and community interaction occurs. In this article, I build on these developments to propose network action research as a methodologica…
Networked Individualism of Urban Residents: Discovering the communicative ecology in inner-city apartment buildings
Certain patterns of interaction between people point to networks as an adequate conceptual model to characterize some aspects of social relationships mediated or facilitated by information and communication technology. Wellman proposes a shift from groups to networks and describes the ambivalent nature inherent in an egocentric yet still well-connected portfolio of sociability with the term ‘networked individualism’. In this paper, qualitative da…
The Role of New Media and Digital Narratives in Urban Planning and Community Development
Many new urban developments are systematically planned and rapidly built and marketed, creating instant ‘communities’ in relatively dense concentrations. As a consequence, urban planners are turning to the social sciences, arts and humanities for answers to achieve socially sustainable developments. This paper discusses a narrative based approach to community engagement in the urban planning process. We describe the evolution of this approach and…
Site-specific mobility and connection in Korea: Bangs (rooms) between public and private spaces
Participation, animation, design: A tripartite approach to urban community networking
Never-Never Land: Affective landscapes, the touristic gaze and heterotopic space in Australia
This article explores how the imaginative use of the landscape in Baz Luhrmann's Australia (2008) intersects with the fantasy of Australianness that the film constructs. We argue that the fictional Never-Never Land through which the film's characters travel is an, albeit problematic, ‘indigenizing’ space that can be entered imaginatively through cultural texts including poetry, literature and film, or through cultural practices including touristi…
Community engagement for sustainable urban futures
This special issue of Futures is concerned with community engagement strategies that help to inform medium and long-term futures studies in order
Geographies/Aerographies of Contagion
In this paper I argue that geography, contagion, and the element of air have historically overlapped in interesting ways and that they continue to do so. By tracing metaphors of air, wind, miasma, and contagion through literary works that span nearly three centuries, I argue that the element of air tends to signify, in cultural expression, a more ambiguous, affective form of contagion that is also bound up with the spread of ideas and information
Street Computing: Towards an Integrated Open Data Application Programming Interface (API) for Cities
This special issue of the Journal of Urban Technology brings together five articles that are based on presentations given at the Street Computing Workshop held on 24 November 2009 in Melbourne in conjunction with the Australian Computer-Human Interaction conference (OZCHI 2009). Our own article introduces the Street Computing vision and explores the potential, challenges, and foundations of this research trajectory. In order to do so, we first lo…
Urban informatics research lab, Queensland University of Technology
research-article Free Access Share on Urban informatics research lab, Queensland University of Technology Authors: Mark Bilandzic View Profile , Marcus Foth View Profile Authors Info & Claims InteractionsVolume 21Issue 6November-December 2014 pp 16–19https://doi.org/10.1145/2674917Published:30 October 2014Publication History 0citation555DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations0Total Downloads555Last 12 Months105Last 6 weeks12 Get Citation AlertsNew Citati…
Using communicative ecology theory to scope the emerging role of social media in the evolution of urban food systems
Imagined Landscapes: Geovisualizing Australian Spatial Narratives
Imagined Landscapes teams geocritical analysis with digital visualization techniques to map and interrogate films, novels, and plays in which space and place figure prominently. Drawing upon A Cultural Atlas of Australia, a database-driven interactive digital map that can be used to identify patterns of representation in Australia’s cultural landscape, the book presents an integrated perspective on the translation of space across narrative forms …
Situated interfaces for engaging citizens on the go
column Share on Situated interfaces for engaging citizens on the go Authors: Luke Hespanhol The University of Sydney The University of SydneyView Profile , Martin Tomitsch The University of Sydney The University of SydneyView Profile , Ian McArthur UNSW Australia UNSW AustraliaView Profile , Joel Fredericks The University of Sydney The University of SydneyView Profile , Ronald Schroeter Queensland University of Technology Queensland University of…
Urban Acupuncture: Hybrid Social and Technological Practices for Hyperlocal Placemaking
This paper considers an emerging planning practice that uses networked connections to interact with urban places and re-create enlivened cities. The paper presents “urban acupuncture” as a new planning approach that broadens communication and strategically targets interventions across the city. Defined as an approach, which, through the use of digital social networks and interactions, involves citizens and planners in place activations in order t…
Imagined Landscapes: Geovisualizing Australian Spatial Narratives
Imagined Landscapes teams geocritical analysis with digital visualization techniques to map and interrogate films, novels, and plays in which space and place figure prominently. Drawing upon A Cultural Atlas of Australia, a database-driven interactive digital map that can be used to identify patterns of representation in Australia’s cultural landscape, the book presents an integrated perspective on the translation of space across narrative forms …
What Might GeoHumanities Do? Possibilities, Practices, Publics, and Politics
This article draws together seven practitioners and scholars from across the diffuse GeoHumanities community to reflect on the pasts and futures of the GeoHumanities. Far from trying to circle the intellectual wagons around orthodoxies of practice or intent, or to determine possibilities in advance, these contributions and the accompanying commentary seek to create connections across the diverse communities of knowledge and practice that constitu…
Atmospheres: Aesthetics of emotional spaces
This recent translation of Tonino Griffero’s 2010 Atmosferologia: Estetica degli spazi emozionali is a welcome English language addition to a burgeoning corpus of research engaging with space, affe
Contagion, Virology, Autoimmunity: Derrida’s Rhetoric of Contamination
Threaded through Derrida’s body of work is a rhetoric of contamination, one that is intimately bound to the question of metaphor—that is, to the question of language and communication in general. In his reading of Antonin Artaud’s The Theatre and its Double in Writing and Difference (1967), Derrida notes that it is ‘metaphor that Artaud wants to destroy’. Metaphor, the manifestation of the schism between words and their referents, and an inescapa…
A Networked Self and Birth, Life, Death
In 2016, the world mourned the loss of a number of famous people who had been of cultural significance across national and generational boundaries. Each of these deaths not only heralded intense affective and discursive activity on social media of the kind associated with public mourning, but they also enfolded ordinary users’ biographies into public expressions of memory, or provoked adjunctive conversations about other topics. To make sense of …
DoGood: Examining gamification, civic engagement, and collective intelligence
Rat running the G20: Collective intelligence for navigating the disrupted city
Creativity and design to articulate difference in the conflicted city: Collective intelligence in Bogota’s grassroots organisations
Social Media Rituals
This chapter discovers the transformations of celebrity in digital culture, before focusing on celebrity deaths understood as media events. It shows that there are considerable historical continuities between the pre-broadcast, broadcast, and social media-dominated eras in the cultural uses of celebrity, both in everyday life and in public culture. The celebrity death as highly mediated public event is largely a twentieth- and twenty-first-centur…
Automating the digital everyday: An Introduction
This Special Issue brings together a range of social science and humanities perspectives on the relationships among automation, digital media and everyday life. We have aimed to get beyond the current hype and anxieties around self-driving cars, algorithms and robotics, and to achieve a more precise and grounded understanding of exactly what might be meant by automation, how and with what effects it is becoming entangled with everyday life and ho…
Big Data, Method and the Ethics of Location: A Case Study of a Hookup App for Men Who Have Sex with Men
With the rise of geo-social media, location is emerging as a particularly sensitive data point for big data and digital media research. To explore this area, we reflect on our ethics for a study in which we analyze data generated via an app that facilitates public sex among men who have sex with men. The ethical sensitivities around location are further heightened in the context of research into such digital sexual cultures. Public sexual culture…
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