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Megan Sawey

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Graduate Student, Department of Communication

Megan Sawey

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    • 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.

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    COMM Updates - 1/23/2023
    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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    COMM Updates - 5/31/2023
    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...
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