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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Professor Rob Cover retweeted
🎆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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Professor Rob Cover retweeted
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 💖💜💙
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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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Professor Rob Cover retweeted
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
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Professor Rob Cover retweeted
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".
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REGISTER: We're excited for Prof @robcover's upcoming lecture, 'Twenty-first century #gender and #sexualiy: Implications for #policy, #education, #representation and #health, 31/8.
Register: buff.ly/3OG97lF
Professor Rob Cover retweeted
Reminder: The CFP for the CSAA 30th Anniversary Conference at RMIT University closes on 29 July - TWO DAYS FROM NOW! See info in the link below. We're looking forward to reading your abstracts! csaa2022.net/?fbclid=IwAR1iD…
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TikTok is now home to a steady stream of deepfake videos.
From Robert Pattinson and Jason Statham, to Tom Cruise and Keanu Reeves, celebrities are being impersonated through these videos – and many are being fooled, writes @robcover (@RMIT). bit.ly/3PCU6SF
Professor Rob Cover retweeted
Enjoying @SophieHartley2's talk on "Data Bodies in Flux: Climate Activism and the Digital", interrogating the ways climate governance has been digitised, datafied and quantified in the service of meeting climate goals - and reminding us that data is never neutral! #BodiesInFlux
Professor Rob Cover retweeted
So exciting to see @NaomiEIR presenting the first conference paper based on her PhD research, "Climate action, networked publics and short video culture on TikTok", focusing specifically on TikTok participation and discussions around last year's #COP26 event. #BodiesInFlux
Professor Rob Cover retweeted
In a new article in Media, Culture & Society, @robcover explores how Australian screen producers, directors writers and actors view the vexed issues around casting straight and cisgender actors in LGBTQ and trans roles. ow.ly/ebpk50JxT8H
@ResearchRMIT @RMIT
Professor Rob Cover retweeted
RMIT’s School of Media & Communication is proud to announce it will be hosting the CSAA 30th Anniversary Conference in Melbourne (29 November – 2 December). For more information, see the conference site at: CSAA2022.net #culturalstudies @JaysProofs @robcover
Professor Rob Cover retweeted
New research from @robcover unpacking the creative and disinformation uses of Deepfake videos, and the social and regulatory responses. ow.ly/l5n750JmG5h
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MIA online first: @robcover explores the cause, form & impact of digital hostility among adults finding it disrupts digital culture, impacts health & wellbeing, & generates mutually supportive care in the absence of formal response from platforms
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Prof Rob Cover (RMIT DERC), with colleagues Dr Amy Chandler (Edinburgh) & Dr Scott Fitzpatrick (ANU) edited a special issue of Health Journal on “Critical Suicide Studies, between methodology and ethics”.
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#ethnographymatters
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MIA online first: There is a growing critical interest in the concept of visibility when representing of marginalised groups. @robcover found it was understood and applied differently by #AusFilm and #AusTV Stakeholders working with #LGBTQ+ content
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MIA online first: The corporeality of sound: drag performance, lip-synching and the popular critique of gendered theatrics in Australian film and television by Rob Cover, Rosslyn Prosser, Duc Dau
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Professor Rob Cover retweeted
Kane Race diagnosing the frightening present juncture of 'wounded' white identity #XR2016
