Associate Professor
North Carolina State University
Department of Communication

Forthcoming:

Conferences
• Shklovski, I., & de Souza e Silva, A. (2012). An urban encounter: Realizing global connectedness through local urban play. Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) 13.0 Annual Conferece. Salford, UK. october, 18-21.

• ICA Mobile Communication preconference. Mobile communication, community and locative media: From the everyday to the revolutionary. Phoenix, AZ. May 23-24.

Book chapters

• de Souza e Silva, A., & Gordon, E. (in press). The waning distinction between private and public: Net locality and the restructuring of space. In K. Gates (Ed.). Media Studies Futures. Boston: Blackwell.

• de Souza e Silva, A. (forthcoming). Mobile Narratives: Reading and writing urban space with location-based technologies. In N. K. Hayles, & Pressman, J (Eds.). Comparative textual media: Interplays between making and critique.

• de Souza e Silva, A., & Frith, J. (forthcoming). Re-narrating the city through the presentation of location. In J. Farman (Ed.). Mobile interface theory: Embodied space and locative media. New York: Routledge.

• de Souza e Silva, A., & Gordon, E. (forthcoming). Net Localities: Beyond networks and mobilities. In P. Adey, D. Bissell, K. Hannam, P. Merriman & M. Sheller (Eds.). Handbook of mobilities. New York: Routledge.

• de Souza e Silva, A., & Frith, J. (forthcoming). Location-based mobile games: Interfaces to urban spaces. In V. Frissen, S. Lammes, M. De Lange, J. De Mul, & J. Raessens. Homo Ludens 2.0.: Media, Play and Identity. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.

Recent publications and news

Book
• de Souza e Silva, A. & Frith, J. Mobile interfaces in public spaces: Locational privacy, control, and urban sociability. New York: Routledge.

Book Chapter
• Gordon, E., & de Souza e Silva, A. (2012). The urban dynamics of net localities: How mobile and location-aware technologies are transforming place. In R. Wilken & G. Goggin (Eds.). Mobile Technology and Place (pp. 89-103). New York: Routledge.

Journal Article
• Sutko, D. M., & de Souza e Silva, A. (2011). Location aware mobile media and urban sociability. New Media & Society, 13 (5), 807-823. 1461444810385202, first published on March 11, 2011 as doi:10.1177/1461444810385202.

Current classes:
COM447: Mobile Technologies and Cultures
COM547/COM798: Mobile Technologies and Social Practices