Rob CoverRob Cover is Professor of Digital Communication and Director of the Digital Ethnography Research Centre at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. He leads a number of major funded research projects on young people, health and wellbeing and digtal and broadcast media. The author of around one hundred journal articles and chapters, he publishes widely on topics related to digital cultures in the context of social identities, young people, suicide prevention and resilience. Rob is the author of ten books, including: Identity in the COVID-19 Years (Bloomsbury, 2024), Identity and Digital Communication: Concepts, Theories, Practices (2023), Fake News in Digital Culture (2022), Emergent Identities: New Sexualities, Gender and Relationships in a Digital Era (2019), Digital Identities: Creating and Communicating the Online Self (2016), and Queer Youth Suicide, Culture and Identity: Unliveable Lives? (2016). He is a co-editor of several anthologies including: Queer Studies in Education (2024), The Routledge Handbook of Gender, Sexuality and Human Rights (2024) and is co-editor of The Elgar Encyclopedia of Queer Studies (2025). Read More Read Less