Associate Professor
North Carolina State University
Department of Communication

Forthcoming:

Conferences
• Local and Mobile conference 2012: Linking mobilities, mobile communication and locative media. The 3rd CRDM Research Symposium and the 3rd joint international conference of the cosmobilities network and the pan-american mobilities network. March 16-18, Raleigh, NC.

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

Books
• de Souza e Silva, A., & Frith, J. (2012). Mobile Interfaces in Public Spaces: Locational privacy, control and urban sociability. New York: Routledge.

Book chapters
• Gordon, E., & de Souza e Silva, A. (in press). The urban dynamics of net localities. In R. Wilken & G. Goggin (Eds.). Place and Mobiles. New York: Routledge.

• 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. (2012/2013). 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. (2011). 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 Chapter
• de Souza e Silva, A., & Frith, J. (2011). Location-aware technologies: Control and privacy in hybrid spaces. In J. Packer, & S. Wiley (Eds.), Communication matters: Materialist approaches to media, networks, and mobility (pp. 265-275). New York: Routledge.

Book
• Gordon, E., & de Souza e Silva, A. Net Locality: Why Location Matters in a Networked World. Boston: Blackwell-Wiley.

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