Gavin Feller

Published Research

Book

Feller, G. (2023). Eternity in the ether: A Mormon media history. (University of Illinois Press). 

Peer-Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters

Feller, G., & Burroughs, B. (2022). Branding kidfluencers: Regulating content and advertising on YouTube. Television & New Media 23(6), 575–592. https://doi.org/10.1177/15274764211052882

Burroughs, B. & Feller, G. (2021). “Child-created content and the media industries” In Routledge Companion to Digital Media and Children edited by Lelia Green, Donell Holloway, Kylie Stevenson, Tama Leaver and Leslie Haddon, p. 217-225.

Feller, G. (2021). Discipline to display, conceal to reveal: Television, swimsuits, and Mormonism in 1950s America. American Academy of Religion 89(4), 1406-1433. 

Feller, G. & Ventimiglia, A. (2021). VidAngel: Content moderation, religion, and American copyright law. Internet Histories 5(1), 8-29. DOI: 10.1080/24701475.2020.1831198

Church, S. & Feller, G. (2021). “Internet memes as remixes: Simpsons memes and the swarm archive” In Routledge Handbook of Remix Studies and Digital Humanities edited by Owen Gallagher, Eduardo Naves and xtine burroughs.

Church, S. & Feller, G. (2020). Synecdoche, aesthetics, and the sublime online: Or, what’s a religious internet meme? Journal of Media and Religion 19(1), 12-23. 

Feller, G. (2018). Communing with compromise: Mormonism and the early Internet. Mormon Studies Review, 5, 67-72.

Feller, G. (2018). Portable power, religious swag: Mediating authority in Brazilian Neo-Pentecostalism. Material Religion. DOI: 10.1080/17432200.2018.1488506

Feller, G. (2018). Uncanny and doubly liminal: Social media, cross-cultural reentry, and LDS/Mormon missionary religious identity. Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture, 7(1), 7-28

Peters, J. D. & Feller, G. Sensational movies: Video, vision, and Christianity in Ghana by Birgit Meyer. AnthroCyBib: The Anthropology of Christianity Bibliography Blog (online).

Feller, G. (2017, February 13). Kicking the Saint and Why Material Religion Matters. Religion Going Public [Academic blog].

Feller, G. (2017). Literary Technofiles: A Review of Tom Keegan’s Craft Critique Culture Conference Plenary Address. Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies, 17(1), 73-75.

Feller, G. (2016). A Moderate Manifesto: Mormon Feminism and Internet Blogging. Journal of Media and Religion, 15(3), 156-166.

Feller, G. (2015). Sacralizing Signals for the Institution and the Individual: KZN and the LDS Church’s Discursive Approach to Radio as a New Medium, 1922-1927. Culture and Religion, 16(3), 327-343.  

Burroughs, B. & Feller, G. (2015). Religious Memetics: Institutional Authority in Digital/Lived Religion. Journal of Communication Inquiry, 39(4), 357-377.

Book Reviews & Other Publications

Feller, G. The Power of Godliness: Mormon liturgy and cosmology by Jonathan Stapley. American Academy of Religion: ‘Reading Religion’ (online). http://readingreligion.org/books/power-godliness

Peters, J. D. & Feller, G. Sensational movies: Video, vision, and Christianity in Ghana by Birgit Meyer. AnthroCyBib: The Anthropology of Christianity Bibliography Blog (online). http://www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk/anthrocybib/2016/08/09/sensational-movies-book-review/  

Feller, G. (2017, February 13). Kicking the Saint and Why Material Religion Matters. Religion Going Public [Academic blog]. http://religiongoingpublic.com/archive/2017/kicking-the-saint-and-why-material-religion-matters