My research is at the intersection of Mobile Communication and Networked Mobilities Studies, with a focus on issues of access, power imbalances, and socio-economic inequalities in the Global South. Broadly, I am interested on the creative ways people appropriate mobile technologies, including location-based games and mobile media art. I explore the many ways urban mobility can be understood as a creative practice. I recently proposed the concept of mobile networked creativity (de Souza e Silva … Learn more »
Research
Recent Scholarship
Comunicação Móvel, Mobilidade Urbana e Práticas Criativas
Hybrid Spaces 2.0: Connecting networked urbanism, creativity and big data in a (post) pandemic world
in Guest Talks, Lectures
Mobile Networked Creativity Repository
What the U.S. Can Learn from Brazil’s Successful COVID Vaccination Campaign
Forthcoming
The Unified COVID-19 Slums Dashboard: How grass-roots crowdsourced mapping practices can help underprivileged populations manage a pandemic
de Souza e Silva, A. (2022). The Unified COVID-19 Slums Dashboard: How grass-roots crowdsourced … [Read More...]
Decolonizing Creativity: A crowdsourcing project about creativity as survival
de Souza e Silva, A., Dufresne, K., & Xiong-Gum, M. (2022). Decolonizing Creativity: A … [Read More...]
CFP Mobile Media & Communication: COVID-19 Now and Then: Reflections on Mobile Communication and the Pandemic
Call for papers for a special issue of Mobile Media & Communication, vol. 11, no. 2 (May … [Read More...]
Location-based Traffic Apps in Rio de Janeiro: Rethinking micromobility as mobilities justice
de Souza e Silva, A., & Glover-Rijkse, R. Location-based Traffic Apps in Rio de Janeiro: … [Read More...]