Rob Cover

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 [https://digital-ethnography.com/about/ 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.

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