Professor of Digital Communication at RMIT Uni & Director Digital Ethnography Research Centre. Digital Cultures / LGBTQ Screens / Minorities & Wellbeing.
Melbourne Australia
Joined April 2009
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Short piece out today in The Conversation on the harms of doxxing, and its weaponisation in times of highly polarised public debate.
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New article out this week--Global anniversaries & cultural rupture.
bit.ly/3HPjSkX
Happy to be part of a special issue celebrating 30 years of the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia, and for being able to riff off the anniversary to think thru cultural change.
Upcoming DERC panel on 7 February at RMIT University, Melbourne on DIGITAL HOSTILITY, policy and social change. With Catharine Lumby, Jennifer Beckett, Benedetta Brevini and more.
More details and registration at: bit.ly/DHDLab2024-1
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🎆Happy 2024 to you all, from your MIA team! 🎆
Our first #OpenAccess article for '24 comes from @RMIT's @robcover, @n_henry, @SharonG & colleagues, and discusses the issues arising from platforms' inadequate definition (and protection) of public figures t.ly/UFwHv
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The DERC Digital Hostility and Disinformation Lab Deepfake Cultures Panel, 28 November, 2.30pm RMIT Melbourne. More info: bit.ly/3sCIidu
Register at: buff.ly/3SVsT2i
#DERC #disinformation #RMIT
New book out this week exploring some of the social, cultural and ethical shifts and exacerbations affecting how we perform identities and belonging since COVID.
Available as e-book or PDF (ppbk avail next month)
bloomsbury.com/.../identity-…
amazon.com.au/Identity-COVID…
2 articles just out from AusQueerScreen ARC project:
T Pym & R Cover (2023) Viewing place: Aust queer screen audiences born in the 70s & 80s, Sexualities bit.ly/3ubJxR4
R Cover & C Milne (2023) The Bury your Gays trope on TV, J Popular Culture bit.ly/46bCyos
Very happy to see our new anthology, Queer Studies and Education, out from Oxford University Press this month.
A collection of work from some fantastic authors; was fabulous co-editing with Nelson Rodriguez, Robert Mizzi and Louisa Allen.
bit.ly/48AODWE
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In honour of #bivisibilitymonth, @amberloomis23 & my chapter on 'Bisexuality' in the forthcoming Encyclopaedia of Queer Studies (eds @robcover & @thisnewman) is now available on @ResearchGate: tinyurl.com/5y3jk67s 💖💜💙
My interview on sapiosexuality (attraction to "intelligent people") by Mme Figaro, weekend supplement to Le Figaro, oldest national daily in France.
Tho it's a new term, I'm pretty sure most Le Figaro readers have been sapiosexuals for centuries....
madame.lefigaro.fr/bien-etre…
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@robcover of @RMIT presents new research on perceptions of online moderators, only at All Things In Moderation 11-12 May online. Register to attend live or view on-demand at bit.ly/allthingsinmoderation
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I see that any of my books that were published by Routledge are on sale this month with a chunky 20% off until 2 May.
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My new book, "Identity and Digital Communication" released by Routledge today. amazon.com/Identity-Digital-…
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In a new article, Professor Rob Cover and his team analyse some of the proposed ‘remedies’ to disinformation and fake news, using a cultural approach that recognises disinformation’s roots in everyday cultural practices: ow.ly/rTZa50LFpVo
#DERCresearchers @ResearchRMIT
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Today! 4:30pm on campus at ANU's CAIS Al-Falasi Lecture Theatre: "COVID-19, Mobility and Identity" with HRC visiting fellow @robcover discussing his forthcoming book, "Identity in the COVID-19 Years: Communication, Crisis and Ethics".
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Tuesday 11 October, 4:30pm on campus at ANU, the next HRC Work in Progress seminar: "COVID-19, Mobility and Identity" with visiting fellow @robcover discussing his forthcoming book, "Identity in the COVID-19 Years: Communication, Crisis and Ethics".
eventbrite.com.au/e/covid-19…
Gender & Sexual Diversity on Aust Screens
Roundtable at ANU 28 Sept 3pm.
Canberra friends and colleagues might be interested in this event with @JatneyWhitmo, @stueyjrichards, @TinoneePym, @McKinnon_SJ, @ausqueerscreen More details & registration: bit.ly/3dju0qn
