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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 



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