Gavin Feller
Biographic Data
| ID | 1609846 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gavin Feller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gavin |
| FAMILY NAME | Feller |
| SIGNATURE | FELLER G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Southern Utah University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0147-5628 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Branding Kidfluencers
This paper analyzes emerging shifts in YouTube, advertising, and children’s digital media industries through a case study of Pocket Watch, a digital-first production and distribution studio built exclusively for YouTube child stars. Our analysis reveals the company’s strategic use of legacy media industry power, networks, and expertise to transform YouTube stars into global brands through the creation of toy, clothing, and lifestyle product lines…
Conceal, Enhance, Expose, Perfect
This article analyzes feminine bodily discipline through the intersection of fashion and faith in mid-century America. Through an analysis of the life and career of Rose Marie Reid—a world-renowned swimsuit designer—this article complicates the cultural history of bodily discipline by recovering the nuances of Reid’s roles as the head of a global swimsuit business and a conservative Mormon mother. I argue that Reid’s major intervention was an ins…
VidAngel
This article traces a cultural history of the visual media filtering industry in the United States—from VHS tapes to internet filters to digital streaming platforms. Through an analysis of the company VidAngel, a video filtering start-up, and its recent copyright lawsuit brought by a group of major Hollywood film studios, we highlight the influential role that religion and copyright law, as interanimating forces, have played in the development of…
Uncanny and Doubly Liminal
This study offers a theoretical perspective on the role of social media in the transition home for returning missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( lds /Mormon). Despite a long tradition of strict lds institutional norms aimed at sheltering full-time church missionaries from outside media influences, missionaries are today increasingly encouraged to use social media sites in their proselytizing efforts. Through qualitat…
Portable power, religious swag
This study is an ethnographic and conceptual analysis of religious objects, their uses, and mediation of authority within the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (Universal Church) in Brazil. Drawing on scholarship within media studies, religion and media, and material religion, I distinguish between artifacts used to cement implicit contracts between Universal Church followers and their church community, which I call contractual media, or swa…
Sacralising signals for the institution and the individual
This study examines LDS Church discourse about radio to better understand the religion’s adoption of the medium during its formative years, namely 1922-1927. Steve Wurtzler’s transcription-signification lens is connected to LDS belief in individual and institutional revelation in order to explore the Church’s hopes and fears surrounding radio as a new communication medium. LDS leaders used radio technology discursively as a metaphor for communica…
Religious Memetics
Recently leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS/Mormon) faith have called upon members to “sweep the earth” with positive religious messages through social media. This digital moment in Mormonism exemplifies the interrelation and concomitant tension between everyday lived religion, technology, and religious institutions. While studies on digital religion have emphasized the push of participatory culture into everyday live…
Religious Memetics
Recently leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS/Mormon) faith have called upon members to “sweep the earth” with positive religious messages through social media. This digital moment in Mormonism exemplifies the interrelation and concomitant tension between everyday lived religion, technology, and religious institutions. While studies on digital religion have emphasized the push of participatory culture into everyday live…
Branding Kidfluencers
This paper analyzes emerging shifts in YouTube, advertising, and children’s digital media industries through a case study of Pocket Watch, a digital-first production and distribution studio built exclusively for YouTube child stars. Our analysis reveals the company’s strategic use of legacy media industry power, networks, and expertise to transform YouTube stars into global brands through the creation of toy, clothing, and lifestyle product lines…
VidAngel
This article traces a cultural history of the visual media filtering industry in the United States—from VHS tapes to internet filters to digital streaming platforms. Through an analysis of the company VidAngel, a video filtering start-up, and its recent copyright lawsuit brought by a group of major Hollywood film studios, we highlight the influential role that religion and copyright law, as interanimating forces, have played in the development of…
Sacralising signals for the institution and the individual
This study examines LDS Church discourse about radio to better understand the religion’s adoption of the medium during its formative years, namely 1922-1927. Steve Wurtzler’s transcription-signification lens is connected to LDS belief in individual and institutional revelation in order to explore the Church’s hopes and fears surrounding radio as a new communication medium. LDS leaders used radio technology discursively as a metaphor for communica…
Sacralising signals for the institution and the individual
This study examines LDS Church discourse about radio to better understand the religion’s adoption of the medium during its formative years, namely 1922-1927. Steve Wurtzler’s transcription-signification lens is connected to LDS belief in individual and institutional revelation in order to explore the Church’s hopes and fears surrounding radio as a new communication medium. LDS leaders used radio technology discursively as a metaphor for communica…
Religious Memetics
Recently leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS/Mormon) faith have called upon members to “sweep the earth” with positive religious messages through social media. This digital moment in Mormonism exemplifies the interrelation and concomitant tension between everyday lived religion, technology, and religious institutions. While studies on digital religion have emphasized the push of participatory culture into everyday live…
Uncanny and Doubly Liminal
This study offers a theoretical perspective on the role of social media in the transition home for returning missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( lds /Mormon). Despite a long tradition of strict lds institutional norms aimed at sheltering full-time church missionaries from outside media influences, missionaries are today increasingly encouraged to use social media sites in their proselytizing efforts. Through qualitat…
Portable power, religious swag
This study is an ethnographic and conceptual analysis of religious objects, their uses, and mediation of authority within the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (Universal Church) in Brazil. Drawing on scholarship within media studies, religion and media, and material religion, I distinguish between artifacts used to cement implicit contracts between Universal Church followers and their church community, which I call contractual media, or swa…
VidAngel
This article traces a cultural history of the visual media filtering industry in the United States—from VHS tapes to internet filters to digital streaming platforms. Through an analysis of the company VidAngel, a video filtering start-up, and its recent copyright lawsuit brought by a group of major Hollywood film studios, we highlight the influential role that religion and copyright law, as interanimating forces, have played in the development of…
Branding Kidfluencers
This paper analyzes emerging shifts in YouTube, advertising, and children’s digital media industries through a case study of Pocket Watch, a digital-first production and distribution studio built exclusively for YouTube child stars. Our analysis reveals the company’s strategic use of legacy media industry power, networks, and expertise to transform YouTube stars into global brands through the creation of toy, clothing, and lifestyle product lines…
Conceal, Enhance, Expose, Perfect
This article analyzes feminine bodily discipline through the intersection of fashion and faith in mid-century America. Through an analysis of the life and career of Rose Marie Reid—a world-renowned swimsuit designer—this article complicates the cultural history of bodily discipline by recovering the nuances of Reid’s roles as the head of a global swimsuit business and a conservative Mormon mother. I argue that Reid’s major intervention was an ins…
Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Media, Religion, Digital Communication (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Mormonism, Religion, and History (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)