Megan Sawey
Graduate Student, Department of Communication
Education
- B.A., Advertising, Temple University
Interests
Personal relationships and technology; online communities; platform governance; identity and digital privacy
Awards & Honors
- Glass Family Fellowship (2020)
- CALS Outstanding Teaching Assistant (2021)
Contact Information
mes476 [at] cornell.edu
- Duffy, B. E. & Sawey, M. (2022). In/visibility in social media work: The hidden labor behind the brands. Media and Communication, 10(1), 77-87.
- Duffy, B. E. & Sawey, M. (2021). Value, service, and precarity among Instagram content creators. In S. Cunningham & D. Craig, (Eds.) Creator culture: Studying the social media entertainment industry. New York, NY: NYU Press.
- Duffy, B. E., Pinch, A., Sannon, S., & Sawey, M. (2021). The nested precarities of platformized creative labor. Social Media + Society.https://doi.org/10.1177%2F20563051211021368
- Sawey, M., & Duffy, B. E. (2021). Care on campus? The commodification of social relationships in college brand ambassador programs. Accepted for presentation at the 71st Annual International Communication Association Conference.
- Sawey, M., & Duffy, B. E. (2020). The valuation of (in)visible labor in the social media industries. Accepted for presentation at the 70th Annual International Communication Association Conference.
- Sawey, M. (2020). “Attractive” girls and “accomplished” men: The making and marketing of sugar relationship roles. Accepted for presentation at the 70th Annual International Communication Association Conference.Sawey, M.,
- Sawey, M. (2021). Anti-MLM: A consideration of creative labor, identity, and multi-level marketing resistance on social media. Accepted for presentation at the 4S Annual Meeting.
Megan in the news
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Happy New Year from the Department of Communication! Awards Several faculty, staff, and graduate students received prestigious awards. Professor Natalie Bazarova received the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative...
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Awards Assistant Professor Neil Lewis, Jr., received the International Communication Association’s Early Career Scholar Award. The award honors a scholar no more than seven years past receipt of the Ph.D. for a body of work that has contributed...