Cover, Rob: -

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).

Monaghan, Whitney: -

Whitney Monaghan is a Lecturer in Communications and Media Studies at Monash University, Australia. Her current research examines LGBTIQ representation on screen. She is the author of Queer Girls, Temporality and Screen Media: Not 'Just a Phase' (2016), and co-author of Queer Theory Now: From
Foundations to Futures (2020). She is also a co-ordinator of the Melbourne Women in Film Festival.

Richards, Stuart: -

Stuart Richards lectures in Screen Studies at the University of South Australia. He is author of The
Queer Film Festival: Popcorn & Politics (2016). He has previously worked with both the Melbourne Queer Film Festival and the San Francisco Frameline International LGBTQ Film Festival.

McKinnon, Scott: - Scott McKinnon is a PERL Research Fellow at the University of Wollongong, Australia. He has a research background in histories and geographies of sexuality, and the place of movies in Australian cultures, with a focus on film reception and memories of cinema among gay audiences. He is the author of Gay Men at the Movies: Cinema, Memory and the History of a Gay Male Community (2016).

Pym, Tinonee: -

Tinonee Pym is a Research Associate on the ARC Discovery Project AusQueerScreen: Representation of Gender and Sexual Diversity in Australian Film and Television, 1990-2010
at RMIT University, Australia. She is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Media and Communication at Swinburne University, Australia, where her research focuses on queer community, sexuality and digital cultures.