Associate Professor, IT University of Copenhagen
Digital Culture and Mobile Communication Group

The Mobile Gaming Blog

Current classes:
BMMS: Mobile Media and Social IT

Recent publications and news

• "We can't see the forest for the T-Mobiles" [PDF 1.7MB]
by Andrian Higgins in The Washington Post. Tuesday, December 15, 2009.

de Souza e Silva, A., & Sutko, D. M. (2009). Digital Cityscapes: Mergining digital and urban playspaces. New York: Peter Lang.

Forthcoming:

Conference presentations

• de Souza e Silva, A. (2011). Keynote speaker. Mobilities in Motion: New Approaches to Emergent and Future Mobilities. International conference of the Pan-American Mobilities Network and the Cosmobilities Network. Center for Mobilities Research and Policy at Drexel University in Philadelphia, March 21-23.

• de Souza e Silva, A., & Gordon, E. (2010). The Net-Local paradox: The waning distinction between private and public. NCA Urban Communication Foundation pre-conference. Chicago: November 13.

• de Souza e Silva, A., & Frith, J. (2010). Locational privacy: Control and personalization in location-based social networks. National Communication Association (NCA) conference: San Francisco. November 15.

• de Souza e Silva, A. (2010). Location-based mobile games: Interfaces to urban spaces. Homo Ludens 2.0. University of Utrecht, The Netherlands. November 17-18.

Book
• Gordon, E., & de Souza e Silva, A. Network Locality: How digital networks create a culture of location. Boston: Blackwell-Wiley.

Journal articles
• Sutko, D. M., & de Souza e Silva, A. (in press). Location aware mobile media and urban sociability. New Media & Society.

• de Souza e Silva, A., & Sutko, D. M. (in press). "Theorizing locative technologies through philosophies of the virtual". Communication Theory.

• de Souza e Silva, A., Sutko, D. M., Salis, F., & de Souza e Silva, C. (2011). Mobile phone appropriation in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. New Media & Society, 12 (1).

• de Souza e Silva, A., & Frith, J. (2011). "Locational privacy in public spaces: Media discourses on location-aware mobile technologies". Communication, Culture and Critique, 4 (2).

• de Souza e Silva, A., & Frith, J. (2010). "Locative Mobile Social Networks: Mapping communication and location in urban spaces". Mobilities, 5 (4).

Book chapters
• de Souza e Silva, A., & Sutko, D. M.(2011). Mobile locative interfaces as potentiality: Actualizing information in space and space as information. In D. W. Park, S. Jones, & N. W. Jankowski (Eds.), The long history of new media: Technology, historiography, and newness in context. New York: Peter Lang Publishers.

• Gordon, E., & de Souza e Silva, A. (in press). Net-local public spaces: Towards a culture of location. In R. Wilken & G. Goggin (Eds.). Place and Mobiles. New York: Routledge.

• Gordon, E., & de Souza e Silva, A. (in press). In K. Gates (Ed.). Media Studies Futures. Boston: Blackwell.