Indexicality orders mobilized in a hustler’s discursive performances: being black and gay

Abstract

In this paper we analyze the orders of indexicality mobilized in Hiago‘s identity performance of race, gender and sexuality. We take into account Queer Theories and web theorizing as a space of coexistence of discourse and actors. This piece of research is based on virtual ethnography (HINE, 2000 e 2005) and data were generated in a chat between one of the researchers and Hiago. The analytical framework is based on Goffman‘s notion of footing and frame ([1979]1998) and on Blommaert´s orders of indexicality (2006 e 2010).We observe that some specific orders of indexicality were mobilized by Hiago‘s multiple contradictory discursive performances.