Professor Rob Cover

Our new book just out this morning. bit.ly/3TcCl12

Short piece out today in The Conversation on the harms of doxxing, and its weaponisation in times of highly polarised public debate. theconversation.com/what-is-doxing…

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

🎆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

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-i… 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

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/psyc…

@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/allthingsinmod…

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. routledge.com/search?author=…

@MereSophistry Absolutely--written with undergrads (and non-scholars) in mind. Can grab an inspection copy I think at: routledge.com/textbooks/eval…

@robcover Looks really good. Target audience? I’m wondering if it could be textbook for undergrads.

My new book, "Identity and Digital Communication" released by Routledge today. amazon.com/Identity-Digit…

@JaysProofs @Left_in_Limbo 3/ It would be overly simplistic to say the cut is a coalition-style act. The evaluation is more complex: (a) need to give better access to those with serious need, and (b) reduce the program's use by those with very low need who can be served with information.

@JaysProofs @Left_in_Limbo 2/ The evaluation showed that, on the whole, the mental health of those with mild needs did not improve the greater the number of appointments. The eval (rightly) identifies better services for those with complex needs than over-funding this model.

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