Episode 48 - Frazer Heritage on representation of gender in videogames (and more)

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Show notes for Episode 48

Here are the show notes for Episode 48, in which Lisa, Jacky and Dan talk to Dr Frazer Heritage of Manchester Metropolitan University about:

• Representation of gender in video games

• What’s changed in the representation of gender and sexuality in video games since the 1980s

• Language methods for analysing representation

• Analysing how incels construct representations of gender

• Dealing with difficult data

Frazer’s staff profile at MMU: Dr Frazer Heritage | Manchester Metropolitan University

Some of Frazer’s work for Manchester Game Centre: Language, Equality, and Gaming – LEG project

Frazer’s website: Frazer Heritage

Contributors

Lisa Casey

blog: https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/ & Twitter: Language Debates (@LanguageDebates)

Dan Clayton

blog: EngLangBlog & Twitter: EngLangBlog (@EngLangBlog)

Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/englangblog.bsky.social

Jacky Glancey

Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey

Matthew Butler

Twitter: https://twitter.com/MatthewbutlerCA

Music: Serge Quadrado - Cool Guys

Cool Guys by Serge Quadrado is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. From the Free Music Archive: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/serge-quadrado/urban/cool-guys