North Carolina State University
Faculty Member, Communication
Associate Professor
About
Adriana de Souza e Silva is an Associate Professor at the Department of Communication at North Carolina State University, affiliated faculty at the Digital Games Research Center (http://dgrc.ncsu.edu/), and a faculty member at the PhD program in Communication, Rhetoric and Digital Media (CRDM).
Dr. de Souza e Silva's research focuses on how mobile and locative interfaces shape people's interactions with public spaces and create new forms of sociability. She teaches classes on mobile technologies, location-based games and Internet studies. Dr. de Souza e Silva is the co-editor (with Daniel M. Sutko) of Digital Cityscapes—Merging digital and urban playspaces (Peter Lang, 2009), the co-author (with Eric Gordon) of Net Locality: Why location matters in a networked world (Blackwell, 2011), and the co-author (with Jordan Frith) of Mobile Interfaces in Public Spaces: Control, privacy, and urban sociability (Routledge, 2012). She holds a Ph.D. in Communication and Culture from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.Â
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