BIOGRAPHY

Adriana de Souza e Silva is an Associate Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen in the
Digital Culture and Mobile Communication group. 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 the book Digital Cityscapes—Merging digital and urban playspaces (2009), and the co-author (with Eric Gordon) of the forthcoming book Network Locality: How digital networks create a culture of location (2011). She holds a Ph.D. in Communication and Culture from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Dr. de Souza e Silva is also faculty at the Department of Communication at North Carolina State University (NCSU), affiliated faculty at the Digital Games Research Center (http://dgrc.ncsu.edu/), and a faculty member of the Science, Technology and Society Program at NCSU.