Jenna Drenten, Ph.D.

Marketing professor with expertise in digital consumer culture, influencer marketing, and media studies

Research Expertise

digital consumer culture
social media
consumer identity
influencer marketing
gender
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Gender Studies
Business and International Management
Communication
Marketing
Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Economics and Econometrics
Anthropology
Social Psychology
Applied Psychology
Sociology and Political Science
Life-span and Life-course Studies
Cultural Studies
Computer Science Applications
Strategy and Management
Literature and Literary Theory
Advanced and Specialized Nursing
LPN and LVN
Assessment and Diagnosis
Emergency Nursing
Critical Care Nursing

About

Dr. Jenna Drenten is an associate professor of marketing in the Quinlan School of Business where she studies *digital consumer culture*: the sociocultural role of social media platforms in everyday consumer life. Her research explains how digital culture—from social media algorithms to the influencer attention economy—structures social and cultural consumption ideologies and how consumers’ lived experiences are mediated, translated, and commodified through digital culture. This includes multiple facets of digital consumer culture—from individual consumer behavior to systemic macro-level structures—across a range of social media platforms. Jenna is an expert in the field of marketing on qualitative social media research methods. Jenna’s work has been published in leading academic journals such as *Journal of Consumer Research*, *Journal of Advertising*, and *New Media & Society*, and her expertise has been featured extensively in media outlets including *The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times,* and *The Washington Post*. For more information, go to [www.jennadrenten.com](http://www.jennadrenten.com/). Jenna serves as an associate editor for the *Journal of Advertising Research*, as the communications chair for GENMAC: Gender, Markets, and Consumers, and as an associate board member for the Chicago Public Library Foundation. In the Quinlan School of Business, she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in marketing, integrated marketing communications, social media marketing, and brand storytelling. Before pursuing her Ph.D., Jenna worked in corporate communications at BMW Manufacturing Co. in Greer, SC and worked in special events and marketing at Minyanville Media, Inc., an Emmy-Award winning online financial publishing company in New York City.

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Publications

Sexualized labour in digital culture: Instagram influencers, porn chic and the monetization of attention
Gender, Work & Organization
2019
Influencer Celebrification: How Social Media Influencers Acquire Celebrity Capital
Journal of Advertising
2021
An exploratory investigation of the dramatic play of preschool children within a grocery store shopping context
International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management
2008
Visual storytelling and vulnerable health care consumers: normalising practices and social support through Instagram
Journal of Services Marketing
2019
Celebrity 2.0: Lil Miquela and the rise of a virtual star system
Feminist Media Studies
2020
Snapshots of the Self: Exploring the Role of Online Mobile Photo Sharing in Identity Development Among Adolescent Girls Jenna Drenten
Online Consumer Behavior
2012
Religion-Related Research in the Journal of Macromarketing, 1981-2014
Journal of Macromarketing
2016
Advancing a participatory approach for youth risk behavior: Foundations, distinctions, and research directions
Journal of Business Research
2013
Gamer Girls: Navigating a Subculture of Gender Inequality
Research in Consumer Behavior
2016
The feminist politics of choice: lipstick as a marketplace icon
Consumption Markets & Culture
2019
The hashtaggable body: negotiating gender performance in social media
Handbook of Research on Gender and Marketing
2019
Crossing the #BikiniBridge
The Dark Side of Social Media
2017
Death consumes us – dispatches from the “death professors”
Consumption Markets & Culture
2017
Digital Payment, “Venmo Me” Culture, and Sociality
The Routledge Handbook of Digital Consumption
2022
Big Brother is monitoring
The Routledge Companion to Marketing and Feminism
2022
Connecting DEI to explicit and implicit gendered workplace discrimination, harassment, and assault: a commentary on 2019 Marketing Climate Survey
Marketing Letters
2021
When kids are the last to know: embodied tensions in surprising children with family vacations
Young Consumers
2018
Un/Re/Doing Gender in Consumer Research: In Conversation with Pauline Maclaran, Lisa Peñaloza, and Craig Thompson
Journal of the Association for Consumer Research
2021
Gone but Not Forgotten: Symbolic Meaning and Motives in Gift-Giving to the Deceased
Developments in Marketing Science: Proceedings of the Academy of Marketing Science
2015
Symbiosis or parasitism? A framework for advancing interdisciplinary and socio-cultural perspectives in influencer marketing
Journal of Marketing Management
2023
Digital ventriloquism and celebrity access: Cameo and the emergence of paid puppeteering on digital platforms
New Media & Society
2021
Curating a consumption ideology: Platformization and gun influencers on Instagram
Marketing Theory
2023
More Gamer, Less Girl: Gendered Boundaries, Tokenism, and the Cultural Persistence of Masculine Dominance
Journal of Consumer Research
2022
Centering transgender consumers in conceptualizations of marketplace marginalization and digital spaces
Journal of Consumer Affairs
2023
Feminist academic organizations: Challenging sexism through collective mobilizing across research, support, and advocacy
Gender, Work & Organization
2022
The platformed money ecosystem: Digital financial platforms, datafication, and reimagining financial well‐being
Journal of Consumer Affairs
2022
Conversations about conducting marketing research in mental health
Journal of Consumer Marketing
2022
Video gaming as a gendered pursuit
Handbook of Research on Gender and Marketing
2019
The Role of Digital Virtual Consumption in Navigating Risk-Laden Life Events
Journal of the Association for Consumer Research
2018
Graves, gifts, and the bereaved consumer: a restorative perspective of gift exchange
Consumption Markets & Culture
2017
The Role of Market-Mediated Milestones in Negotiating Adolescent Identity Tensions
Research in Consumer Behavior
2013
Royal Rivalry and the Quest for a Son
PsycCRITIQUES
2009
Adventure, Courage, and Perseverance
PsycCRITIQUES
2008
A Foundation for Theory Building in Neuroscience and Communication
PsycCRITIQUES
2008
Future Technology, Consumerism, and the Human Condition
PsycCRITIQUES
2008

Education

University of Georgia

PhD, Marketing / May, 2012

Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Winthrop University

BS, Integrated Marketing Communications / May, 2007

Rock Hill, South Carolina, United States of America

Experience

Loyola University Chicago

Associate Professor of Marketing / July, 2020Present

Assistant Professor of Marketing / July, 2014June, 2020

John Carroll University

Assistant Professor of Marketing / July, 2012June, 2014

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