Adriana de Souza e Silva
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, 2004

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Adriana de Souza e Silva is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Communication at North Carolina State University (NCSU), and the director of the Mobile Gaming Research Lab. She is also a faculty member of the Science, Technology and Society Program at NCSU. In 2004/2005, she was a Senior Researcher at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies (GSE&IS) at CRESST (Center for the Study of Evaluation). Dr. de Souza e Silva holds a Ph.D. on Communication and Culture at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. From 2001 to 2004 she was a visiting scholar at the UCLA Department of Design | Media Arts. Dr. de Souza e Silva’s research focuses on how new media (mobile) interfaces change our relationship to space and create new social environments via media art and hybrid reality games. She holds a Masters degree in Communication and Image Technology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.