Megan Sawey
Graduate Student, Department of Communication

Education
- B.A., Advertising, Temple University
Interests
Paid companionship practices and new media technologies; platformized creative work and labor; cultural production; identity and labor; digital feminist resistance
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.