LECTURES

Forthcoming

• de Souza e Silva, A., & Dannels, D. (2008). OnSite: A hybrid reality game on a University campus.
National Communication Association (NCA) Annual Convention, San Diego, CA. Nov. 21-24.

2008
• de Souza e Silva, A., & Salis, F. (2008). Mobile Technologies in low-income communities: Rethinking the digital divide from the favelas of Rio de Janeiro [slides 1.9 MB]
International Communication Association (ICA) Annual Convention, Montréal, CA. May 22-26.

• Photo: Past, present and future -- An overview of mobile pictures [slides 1.2 MB]
City of Raleigh Arts Commision, Raleigh, NC. May 05.

• Johnson, M., Gallaguer, V., de Souza e Silva, A., & Sutko, D.
Developing websites to influence graduate admissions and external funding. Panel at the
Southern States Communication Association Convention (SSCA), Savannah, GA. April 7-6.

2007
• Conceptualizing locative social mobile networks: A brief look into Smart
Mobs, location-based games and interpersonal aware applications [slides 1.6
MB]
Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) 2007 conference, Vancouver, CA. October 18.

2006
• Alien Revolt: A location-based mobile game in the context of Latin American urban sapce. [slides 1 Mb]
National Communication Association (NCA) Annual Convention. San Antonio, TX. November 16.

• Hybrid reality gaming: embedding games in public spaces. [slides 1.8 Mb]
Collaboration in the North Carolina Serious Game Space Workshop. NCSU Computer Science Department's Center for Digital Entertainment and the North Carolina Serious Games Initiative, May 02.

• From MUDs as (virtual) spaces to (hybrid) spaces as MUDs: Mobile technologies as interfaces of hybrid spaces. [slides 1.3 Mb]
Benjamin Franklin Scholars Spring Lecture Series. North Carolina State University. March 29.

2005
• Cell Phones and Places: the use of mobile technologies in Brazil. [slides 1.7 MB]
Symposium on Societies and Cities in the Age of Instant Access, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA. Nov. 10-12.

• Hybrid Reality Games: Transforming gaming, sociability and urban spaces via mobile technologies. [slides 850 Kb]
4S (Society for Social Studies of Science) Panel Series:: New Media Studies Meets STS. Organizer: Mizuko Ito. Hilton Pasadena, Pasadena, CA. Oct. 20-22.

• Interfaces Móveis de Comunicação e Subjetividade Contemporânea (Mobile Interfaces and Contemporary Subjectivity) [slides 1.8 MB]
Award Winning Dissertation of the Intercom Award 2005.
Intercom 2005 (XXVIII Brazilian Congress of Communication Sciences), organized by the Brazilian Society of Interdisciplinary Studies in Communication. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Sep. 06.

• “Hybrid Reality Gaming: Using mobile interfaces to measure learning.” (in collaboration with Girlie C. Delacruz & Danielle E. Kaplan) [slides 1.2 MB]
AERA (American Educational Research Association) Conference. Montréal, Canada. Apr. 11-15.

2004
• “Mobile and Pervasive Gaming: creating a hybrid reality by blurring the borders between the physical and the virtual.” [slides 364 Kb]
Narr@ative: Digital Storytelling. UC Digital Cultures Graduate Conference. UCLA. April 22-23.

• “From MUDs as space to space as a MUD - cell phones in art and public spaces.” [slides 1.8 Mb]
Consciousness Reframed: 5th CAiiA International Research Conference -- Art and Consciousness in the post-biological era. Caerleon, Wales, UK. July 2-6.

• “From MUDs as Space to Space as a MUD - a study about cell phones.”. [slides 779 Kb]
Life by Design: Everyday Digital Culture Conference. University of California, Irvine. April 9-11.

• “From Simulations to Hybrid Space - how new technologies change the real." [slides 121 Kb]
The Infrastructures of Digital Design: Thinking/Building/Living Conference. University of Californa, San Diego. February 01-03.

• "Hybrid Space Nomads." [slides 496 Kb]
DESMA 495 Teaching Assistant Training Practicum. Invited lecturer to the course , taught by Fabian Winkler at the Department of Design | Media Arts, UCLA. November 20.

• “database.” (in collaboration with Fabian Winkler). [slides 709 Kb]
ACADIA / DDE (Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture / Digital Design Exhibition). University of Pomona, CA. October 26.

• “database.” (in collaboration with Fabian Winkler). [slides 623 Kb]
File Symposium (III International Festival of Electronic Language). São Paulo, Brazil. August 7.

• “Z — ou como estar imerso no espaço digital.” (Z-- or how to be immersed in digital space). [slides 31 Kb]
X Compós - Annual Meeting of the Communication’s Graduate Programms National Association. Brasília, Brazil. June.

• “Habitar o Digital.” (Inhabiting the Digital). [slides 795 Kb]
SiGRraDi (Constructing the Digital Space) - IV Ibero-american Congress of Digital Graphics. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. September 26-28.

• “Interface gráfica e comunidades virtuais.” (Graphic interface and virtual communities)." [paper 70 Kb | abstract 10 Kb]
V Research Meeting of Researchers on Human Sciences. Centre of Phylosophy and Human Sciences, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. October.