Adriana Araujo de Souza e Silva

Adriana de Souza e Silva is Associate Professor at the Department of Communication at North Carolina State University (NCSU), affiliated faculty at the Digital Games Research Center, and a faculty member of the Communication, Rhetoric and Digital Media (CRDM) program at NCSU. Dr. de Souza e Silva's research focuses on how mobile and locative interfaces shape people's interactions with public spaces and create new forms of sociability. She teaches classes on mobile technologies, location-based games and Internet studies. Dr. de Souza e Silva is the co-editor (with Daniel M. Sutko) of Digital Cityscapes Merging digital and urban playspaces (Peter Lang, 2009), the co-author (with Eric Gordon) of Net-Locality: Why location matters in a networked world (Blackwell, 2011), and the co-author (with Jordan Frith) of Mobile interfaces in public spaces: Control, privacy, and urban sociability (Routledge, 2012). She holds a Ph.D. in Communication and Culture from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

bachelor's at Comunicação Social Jornalismo from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (1997), master's at Comunication from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (1999) and doctorate at Comunication from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (2004). Has experience in Comunication, focusing on Theory of the Comunication, acting on the following subjects: interface, internet, comunicação, telefones celulares and ambientes de multiusuários.