Rob Cover is Professor of Digital Communication at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. He leads a number of major funded research projects on young people, health and wellbeing and digital 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. His publications include: Identity in the COVID-19 Years (Bloomsbury, 2024), Identity and Digital Communication: Concepts, Theories, Practices (2023), Fake News in Digital Culture (2021), Population, Mobility and Belonging: Understanding Population Concepts in Media, Culture and Society (2020), Emergent Identities: New Sexualities, Gender and Relationships in a Digital Era (2019), Flirting in the Era of #MeToo: Negotiating Intimacies (with A Bartlett and K Clarke, 2019), Digital Identities: Creating and Communicating the Online Self (2016), Vulnerability and Exposure: Footballer Scandals, Masculinity and Ethics (2015) and Queer Youth Suicide, Culture and Identity: Unliveable Lives? (2012). He is a co-editor of the anthologies Queer Studies in Education (forthcoming), The Routledge Handbook of Gender, Sexuality and Human Rights (forthcoming) and Youth, Sexuality and Sexual Citizenship (2019).