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

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