Faculty Fellow
Professor, Department of Cinema Studies, Tisch School of the Arts
Anna McCarthy, Professor of Cinema Studies in Tisch School of the Arts, is the author of two books–Ambient Television (2001), The Citizen Machine, (2010)–and co-editor of the 2004 anthology MediaSpace. for eight years she was a co-editor of the journal Social Text. Her current research explores the digital commodity we commonly refer to as content. Content is the product of a casualized, high yield, piecework economy, and the content market has developed its own rules of supply and forms of value. To grasp them, McCarthy’s research combines the work of theory and the eye level analysis of a participant. This year she will also begin work on an account of media and religion in 20th century Ireland.