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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 and department chair at The University of Western Australia in the School of Social Sciences since 2012. 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.
He is a chief investigator on an Australian Research Council Discovery Project on belonging and sexual citizenship among gender and sexual minority youth.