Towards an Analysis of Gender in Video Game Culture: Exploring Gender specific Vocabulary in Video Game Magazines

URN to cite this document:: urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-492970
DOI to cite this document:: 10.5283/epub.49297

Schmidt, Thomas ; Engl, Isabella ; Herzog, Juliane ; Judisch, Lisa

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Item type:	Conference or workshop item (Paper)
Title of Book:	Proceedings of the Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries 5th Conference (DHN 2020)
Place of Publication:	Riga, Latvia
Page Range:	pp. 333-341
Date:	October 2020
Institutions:	Languages and Literatures > Institut für Information und Medien, Sprache und Kultur (I:IMSK) > Lehrstuhl für Medieninformatik (Prof. Dr. Christian Wolff) Informatics and Data Science > Lehrstuhl für Medieninformatik (Prof. Dr. Christian Wolff)
Keywords:	Game Studies, Gender Studies, Corpus Linguistics, LIWC, Video Games, Video Game Magazines, Gender, Gaming
Dewey Decimal Classification:	000 Computer science, information & general works > 004 Computer science 100 Philosophy & psychology > 150 Psychology 300 Social sciences > 300 Social sciences 400 Language > 400 Language, Linguistics 400 Language > 420 English 700 Arts & recreation > 770 Photography & photographs 800 Literature > 800 Literature & rhetoric
Status:	Published
Refereed:	Yes, this version has been refereed
Created at the University of Regensburg:	Yes
Item ID:	49297

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We present preliminary results of a project examining the role and usage of gender specific vocabulary in a corpus of video game magazines. The corpus consists of three popular video game magazines with 634 issues from the 1980s until 2011 and was gathered via OCR-scans of the platform archive.org. We report on the distribution and progression of gender-specific words by using word lists of the ...

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