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In this article we focus on the internet use of one ‘space deprived’ group of marginalized young people, those who are same-sex attracted. Alternatively, there are others who argue that the exclusion of young people from the internet is one of many examples of the diminishing public space that is made available to young people in this post-modern world. There are those who fear that the internet will introduce undesirable people and information into the home, leaving the young vulnerable and exploited. The internet has met with mixed community reactions, especially when the focus is on young people's internet use. I conclude that as masculinities can be, and are being, complicated and given agency by advancing notions and practices of connectivity, mobility, classification and convergence, those engaged with masculinity studies and digital media have much to contribute. Through this analysis I discuss themes related to digital mediators, relationships, play and leisure, work and commerce, and ethics. Using this framework, I suggest we need to consider the rise in what I call networked masculinities – those masculinities (co)produced and reproduced with digitally networked publics. To begin to unpack this area, I engage theorizations of the properties of digital media networks and integrate this with the masculinity studies field. Given this context, I believe it is necessary for us to undertake more work to understand men’s engagements with digital media, the implications this might have for masculinities and the analysis of gender relations more generally. This rise has been fuelled over the last decade by the emergence of Web 2.0 and particularly Social Networking Sites (SNS). Over the past 30 years we have witnessed a dramatic rise in the pervasiveness of digital media across many parts of the world and as associated with wide ranging aspects of our lives. However, it continues to be the case that men’s experiences with technology are underexplored and the situation is even more problematic where digital media is concerned. It is of course recognised that technology is gendered and is implicated in gender relations. In particular, we show how LINE plays a crucial role in Chinese gay men's engagements with gay men's digital culture in Australia by (1) mediating this group's navigations of new social and cultural environments and (2) remediating their experiences within other platforms central to the broader GLBT community. Drawing on data from participant observation carried out over several months during late 2015 and early 2016 in an Australian-based LINE group for local Chinese gay men, we highlight here how LINE functions as an important intermediary for many Chinese men engaging with gay men's digital cultures in this context. To this end, the current paper presents research in progress on the social chat application LINE and its use amongst the Chinese diaspora of gay men in Australia. In the case of Australia, a country with an official multiculturalism framework in place and against a backdrop of significant levels of Asian immigration over the past several decades, a more pluralistic approach is needed to critically interrogate the dialectic between platforms, users and wider sociocultural complexities. Recent research on gay men's digital cultures has focused predominantly on Western, English-language-based sites and populations.