Frazer Heritage is an Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at Birmingham City University, UK. He actively researches the representation of gender and sexuality in different forms of media, with a focus on using corpus methods to do such analysis.
Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: What do we know? A background to Language, Gender, Videogames, and Corpora.- Chapter 3: The Problems With Videogame Data: Methodological Considerations in the Creation of a Corpus of Videogames and Problems with Different Methods of Corpus Compilation.- Chapter 4: Looking at Representations of Gender Across Videogames: A Corpus of General Fantasy Games.- Chapter 5: Looking at Gender in a Specific Series of Videogames: A Corpus of The Witcher Series.- Chapter 6: Looking at Diachronic Differences in the Representation of Gender: the (Re) Duplication of Gendered Discourses in World of Warcraft Quests.- Chapter 7: Conclusions and Lines for Future Research.