Rate My Professor Adriana de Souza e Silva

Adriana de Souza e Silva is a Professor of Communication Studies in the College of Arts, Media and Design at Northeastern University, where she joined in 2024 and serves as Director of the Center for Transformative Media and Chair of the CAMD AI Advisory Council. She earned a Ph.D. in Communication and Culture from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in 2004, an M.A. in Communication and Image Technology from the same institution in 1999, and a B.A. cum laude in Journalism and Social Communication from UFRJ in 1996. Her career includes positions as Professor of Communication at North Carolina State University from 2018 to 2024, Associate Professor there from 2011 to 2018, and Assistant Professor from 2005 to 2011. She was also Associate Professor of Digital Culture and Mobile Communication at the IT University of Copenhagen from 2010 to 2011, Senior Researcher at UCLA's CRESST from 2004 to 2005, and Visiting Scholar at the Pontifical Catholic University in Rio de Janeiro.

Dr. de Souza e Silva researches how mobile and locative media technologies shape urban mobility and interactions in public spaces, with a focus on the Global South, location-based games, and mobile media art. She is the author or editor of seven books, including Net-Locality: Why Location Matters in a Networked World (2011, with E. Gordon), Mobile Interfaces in Public Spaces: Locational Privacy, Control, and Urban Sociability (2012, with J. Frith), and The Routledge Companion to Mobile Media Art (2020, editor with L. Hjorth and K. Lanson), and over 50 peer-reviewed articles, such as 'From Cyber to Hybrid: Mobile Technologies as Interfaces of Hybrid Spaces' (2006, 909 citations) and 'Hybrid Space Revisited: From Concept Toward Theory' (2025, with S.W. Campbell and R. Ling). Her work has garnered major awards, including the NC State Alumni Association Distinguished University Graduate Professor Award (2024), two College of Humanities and Social Sciences Outstanding Researcher Awards (2013, 2020), Faculty Scholar Award (2015), and two ICA Mobile Communication Division Top Paper Awards (2020, 2024). She is Senior Editor of Mobile Media & Communication and Chair of the ICA Mobile Communication Division (2025-2027), and was selected as a Northeastern AI Faculty Fellow. She teaches courses on mobile communication, internet studies, and histories and theories of technology.