Rob Cover

Rob Cover (born 31 May 1972, 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. He is an associate professor at The University of Western Australia where he is Deputy Head of the School of Social Sciences since 2018. Previously, he was senior lecturer in Media at The University of Adelaide and has held visiting research and teaching fellowships at The University of Queensland, Adelaide University, and Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.

He received his PhD from Monash University, and is a frequent speaker and online commentator on contemporary media and minority issues.[1][2]

He is a chief investigator on an Australian Research Council Discovery Project on belonging and sexual citizenship among gender and sexual minority youth,[3][4] and on another on the representation of gender and sexual diversity in Australian screen media, its histories and its role in social change.[5]

Works

The author of numerous academic journal articles[6][7] and creative short fiction,[8] his books include:

  • Queer Youth Suicide, Culture and Identity: Unliveable Lives? Ashgate, 2012, ISBN 9781409444473[9][10][11][12]
  • Vulnerability and Exposure: Footballer Scandals, Masculine Identity and Ethics, UWAP Scholarly, 2015, ISBN 9781742586496[13][14]
  • Digital Identities: Creating and Communicating the Online Self, Elsevier, 2016, ISBN 9780124200838[15]
  • Emergent Identities: New Sexualities, Genders and Relationships in a Digital Era, 2018, ISBN 9781138098619[16]
  • Youth, Sexuality and Sexual Citizenship (co-edited with Peter Aggleton, Deana Leahy, Daniel Marshall and Mary Lou Rasmussen), 2018, ISBN 9780815379874[17]

References

  1. ^ "Rob Cover - On Line Opinion Author". On Line Opinion. Retrieved 2018-10-21.
  2. ^ "Rob Cover". HuffPost UK. Retrieved 2018-10-21.
  3. ^ "Research Data Australia Discovery Projects". Retrieved September 18, 2016.
  4. ^ "Queer Generations Project Website". Retrieved September 19, 2016.
  5. ^ "Australian Queer Screen". Australian Queer Screen. Retrieved 2018-10-21.
  6. ^ "Academia.edu". Retrieved September 18, 2016.
  7. ^ "Researcgate.net". Retrieved September 18, 2016.
  8. ^ "AustLit Profile".
  9. ^ "Queer Youth Suicide, Culture and Identity: Unliveable Lives?". Retrieved September 2, 2016.
  10. ^ Gent, Whitney (2014). "Queer Youth Suicide, Culture and Identity: Unliveable Lives? by Rob Cover (review)". QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking. 1 (1). Retrieved September 17, 2016 – via Project MUSE.
  11. ^ "Briefly Noted". Contemporary Sociology. 42 (2): 290. 2013. doi:10.1177/0094306113477387. Retrieved September 18, 2016.
  12. ^ Pullen, Christopher (2013). "Rob Cover, Queer Youth Suicide, Culture and Identity: Unliveable Lives?". Sexualities. 16 (3/4): 492. doi:10.1177/1363460713479879.
  13. ^ "Vulnerability and Exposure". Retrieved September 18, 2016.
  14. ^ Risker, Chris (2015). "Vulnerability and Exposure, Reviewed by Chris Risker". Sport Literature Association. Retrieved September 18, 2016.
  15. ^ "Digital Identities: Creating and Communicating the Online Self". Retrieved September 18, 2016.
  16. ^ "Emergent Identities: New Sexualities, Genders and Relationships in a Digital Era, 1st Edition (Paperback) - Routledge". Routledge.com. 2018-09-10. Retrieved 2018-10-21.
  17. ^ "Youth, Sexuality and Sexual Citizenship: 1st Edition (Hardback) - Routledge". Routledge.com. 2018-10-23. Retrieved 2018-10-21.

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