Computer-mediated communication offers opportunities for gay men to
affirm their identities in digital contexts. Many gay men have turned to
online journals, or "blogs," and internet-bound broadcasts, otherwise known
as "podcasts," to perform their subjectivities. Digital performances of gay
identities potentially intervene on reductive understandings of gay male
identity that are prevalent in several mass mediated modes of communication.
This project is grounded in a review of literature relevant to performances
of identity, personal narrative, social activism, and online methods of
cultural...