I work in the emerging fields of digital media and mobile communication. I study how mobile technologies help us make sense of our interactions with public spaces and to society. There are two main interrelated trends to my research. The first deals with the study of location-aware mobile technologies such as GPS-equipped cell phones. I investigate how location-based mobile games and location-based social networks enable people to coordinate their activities with others, to gain information … Learn more »
Research
Recent Scholarship
Challenging Communication Students to Design the Library of the Future
2018: Rogers, A., Burke, A., de Souza e Silva, A., & Nickels, C. Challenging Communication Students to Design the Library of the Future. Teaching … [Read More...]
Pokémon Go as an HRG: Mobility, sociability and surveillance
in Guest Talks
de Souza e Silva (2017). Pokémon Go as an HRG: Mobility, sociability, and surveillance. Webinar Geothink&Learn 1: Pokémon Go. McGill University. … [Read More...]
Location-Based Services in Brazil: Reframing Privacy, Mobility, and Location
de Souza e Silva, A., Matos-Silva, M., & Nicolaci-da-Costa, A. (2017). Location-based services in Brazil: Reframing privacy, mobility, and … [Read More...]
Dialogues on Mobile Communication
in Books
Author: Adriana de Souza e Silva ISBN: 978-1138691582 Published: October 22, 2016 VIEW ON AMAZON In this book, top scholars in the field of … [Read More...]
Books
Forthcoming
Urban Mobility in Context
de Souza e Silva, A., Damasceno, C. S., Bueno, D. M., & Grandinetti, J. (Forthcoming). Urban mobility in context: A study about early adopters of location-based taxi-hailing apps. In: Ling, R., Goggin, G., Fortunati, L. Lim, S. S., & Li, Yuling (Eds.). Oxford Handbook of Mobile Communication, Culture, and Information (pp. xx-xx). Oxford University Press.
Generic Phones in Context:
de Souza e Silva, A., Damasceno, C. S., & Bueno, D. (2018). Generic Phones in Context: The circulation and social practices of mobile devices in Rio de Janeiro. In R. Wilken, G. Goggin & H. Horst (Eds.), Location Technologies in International Context (pp. xx-xx). London: Routledge.
HIBRID PLAY: 2018 CRDM Research Symposium
in Lectures
March 26-17 @ Talley Student Center, NC State University.
Symposium website
Conference Chair: Adriana de Souza e Silva
Assistant Chair: Nick Taylor
COM587: Internet & Society
Department: Department of Communication
Institution: NC State University
Terms: Fall, 2018, Spring 2017, Fall 2015, Fall 2014
The internet is all around us. Using mobile phones and location-aware technologies, people are browsing information wherever they happen to be. As a result, physical location has become an important factor in how information is categorized and accessed. From online maps to location-based social networks and games, location awareness is becoming central to how we understand the internet today. However, digital information was categorized and accessed differently in the past.
This course explores social uses of the internet, focusing on its historical development as a digital network. In addition to looking at the history of the internet, from the ARPANET to the mobile web, it also explores an emerging form of networked interactions called net locality. Net locality is about happens to individuals and society when virtually everything is located or locatable. This course will run as a seminar and explores the following key topics:
- A historical overview of the development of the internet:
- Conceptual origins of the internet, such as Vannevar Bush’s Memex and hypertext theory,
- Historical facts that led to the development of the ARPANET and the World Wide Web, such as the transition from mainframes to personal computers
- The development of HTML as the web’s main original programming language and how the internet’s functionality was originally based on communication protocols that aimed at sharing resources.
- Social uses of the internet:
- Usenet, BBS and MUDs as the origins of blogs, wikis, and social networking sites.
- The development of what was called web 2.0. and co-related issues such as regulation, privacy and digital divide. online.
- Location and Net locality:
- The affordances of digital networks embedded with mobility and location awareness.
- Location-based services and location-based social networks.