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Rob Cover (born 31 May 1982, Canberra, Australia) is a social theorist and media scholar, specialising in critical sexuality studies, digital media theory, minority stereotyping and media scandals, with work on LGBTIQ youth suicide, cultures of social networking and audience interactivity, as well as cultural and media representations of population. He is Professor of Digital Communication at RMIT University, Melbourne, where he is a Director of the RMIT Digital Ethnography Research Centre. He was previously associate professor at The University of Western Australia, from 2013 to 2019 where he served as Deputy Head of the School of Social Sciences and has also held positions at The University of Adelaide and Victoria University of Wellington. Cover has held visiting research and teaching fellowships at The University of Queensland, the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, Karlstad University, and The Australian National University.

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He received his Doctorate from Monash University, and is a frequent speaker and online commentator on contemporary media and minority issues. [1] [2] He also studied history and maintains a hobby-like interest in British and European history. [3]

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The author of numerous academic journal articles [4] [5] and creative short fiction, [6] his books include:


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References

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  2. ↑ "Rob Cover". HuffPost UK. Retrieved 21 October 2018.
  3. ↑ "Rob Cover - Quora Author". Quora . Retrieved 25 September 2024.
  4. ↑ "Academia.edu" . Retrieved 18 September 2016.
  5. ↑ "Researchgate.net" . Retrieved 18 September 2016.
  6. ↑ "AustLit Profile".
  7. ↑ Cover, Dr Rob (28 January 2013). Queer Youth Suicide, Culture and Identity: Unliveable Lives?. ISBN   9781409495529 . Retrieved 2 September 2016.
  8. ↑ Gent, Whitney (2014). "Queer Youth Suicide, Culture and Identity: Unliveable Lives? by Rob Cover (review)". QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking. 1 (1): 216. doi:10.14321/qed.1.1.0216 . Retrieved 17 September 2016– via Project MUSE.
  9. ↑ "Briefly Noted". Contemporary Sociology. 42 (2): 290. 2013. doi:10.1177/0094306113477387. S2CID   220849495 . Retrieved 18 September 2016.
  10. ↑ Pullen, Christopher (2013). "Rob Cover, Queer Youth Suicide, Culture and Identity: Unliveable Lives?". Sexualities. 16 (3/4): 492–494. doi:10.1177/1363460713479879. S2CID   147261454.
  11. ↑ "Vulnerability and Exposure" . Retrieved 18 September 2016.
  12. ↑ Risker, Chris (2015). "Vulnerability and Exposure, Reviewed by Chris Risker". Sport Literature Association. Retrieved 18 September 2016.
  13. ↑ Cover, Rob (13 October 2015). Digital Identities: Creating and Communicating the Online Self. ISBN   9780124200838 . Retrieved 18 September 2016.
  14. ↑ "Emergent Identities: New Sexualities, Genders and Relationships in a Digital Era, 1st Edition (Paperback) - Routledge". Routledge.com. 10 September 2018. Retrieved 21 October 2018.
  15. ↑ "Youth, Sexuality and Sexual Citizenship: 1st Edition (Hardback) - Routledge". Routledge.com. 23 October 2018. Retrieved 21 October 2018.

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