Research & Publications
Mobile Networked Creativity is a theoretical
framework for understanding creativity as a survival
practice that emerges from networked connections
and (im)mobilities, in situations of hardship.
Adriana de Souza e Silva on Mobile Networked Creativity
Professor Adriana de Souza e Silva, Director of the Center for Transformative Media at Northeastern University, introduces the concept of Mobile Networked Creativity (MNC).
Research By The Authors
Book
Mobile networked creativity
de Souza e Silva, A., & Xiong-Gum, M. (2026). MIT Press.
Book Chapter
Framing location-based micromobility as mobility justice in networked urban spaces.
de Souza e Silva, A. (2025). In G. Goggin & L. Hjorth (Eds.),
The Routledge companion to mobile media (2nd ed., pp. 88-92). Routledge.
Journal Article
COVID-19 now and then: Reflections on mobile communication and the pandemic.
de Souza e Silva, A., & Xiong-Gum, M. N. (2023). Mobile Media & Communication, 11(2), 140-155.
Conference Paper
Decolonizing creativity: A crowdsourcing project about creativity as survival.
de Souza e Silva, A., Dufresne, K., & Xiong-Gum, M. (2022).
AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research.
Journal Article
Hybrid spaces 2.0: Connecting networked urbanism, uneven mobilities, and creativity, in a (post) pandemic world.
de Souza e Silva, A. (2022).
Mobile Media & Communication, 11(1), 59-65.
Journal Article
Mobile networked creativity: Developing a theoretical framework for understanding creativity as survival.
de Souza e Silva, A., & Xiong-Gum, M. N. (2021). Communication Theory, 31(4), 821–840.
Journal Article
From cyber to hybrid: Mobile technologies as interfaces of hybrid spaces.
de Souza e Silva, A. (2006).
Space and Culture, 9(3), 261-278.
Research About MNC (By Others)
Journal Article
Micromobility justice in urban Brazil: The contexts of scooter sharing services.
de Souza e Silva, A., Glover, R., & Scardua, M. (2025).
Mobilities. Online Publication.
Journal Article
Hybrid Space revisited: from concept toward theory.
de Souza e Silva, A., Campbell, S. W., & Ling, R. (2025).
Communication Theory, 35(1), 14-24.
Book Chapter
Infrastructures enabling creativity and play in hybrid spaces.
Glover, R. (2024).
In von Pape, T & KarnowskiIn, V. (Eds.), The Mobile Media Debate: Challenging Viewpoints Across Epistemologies (pp. 130-142). Routledge.
Journal Article
Playful mobilities in the Global South: A study of Pokémon Go play in Rio de Janeiro and Nairobi.
de Souza e Silva, A., Glover-Rijkse, R., Njathi, A., & De Cunto Bueno, D. (2023).
New Media & Society, 25(5) 963-979.
Journal Article
Playing remotely: The COVID-19 pandemic and mobile locative gaming in Northeast Brazil.
Andrade, L. A., & Nery Filho, J. (2023).
Mobile Media & Communication, 11(2), 213-229.
Book Chapter
Rethinking micromobility as mobilities justice: Location-based traffic apps in Rio de Janeiro.
de Souza e Silva, A., & Glover-Rijkse, R. (2022).
In B. Kredell, G. Halegoua, & E. Stein (Eds.). The Routledge companion to media and the city (pp. 354-365). Routledge
Journal Article
Venezuelan refugees in Brazil: Communication rights and digital inequalities during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Camargo, J., Cogo, D., & Alencar, A. (2022).
Media and Communication, 10(2), 230-340.
Book Chapter
Urban mobility in context: A study about early adopters of location-based taxi-hailing apps.
de Souza e Silva, A., Damasceno, C. S., Bueno, D. M., & Grandinetti, J. (2020).
In Ling, R., Goggin, G., Fortunati, L. Lim, S. S., & Li, Yuling (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Mobile Communication and Society (pp. 487-500). Oxford University Press.
Book
Mobility Justice: The politics of movement in an age of extremes.
Sheller, M. (2018). Verso
Journal Article
Creative appropriations in hybrid spaces: Mobile interfaces in art and games in Brazil.
de Souza e Silva, A., Duarte, F., & Damasceno, C. (2017).
International Journal of Communication, 11, 1705-1728.
Book Chapter
Location-based services in Brazil: Reframing privacy, mobility, and location.
de Souza e Silva, A., Matos-Silva, M., & Nicolaci-da-Costa, A. (2017).
In C. Marvin & S. Hong (Eds.), Place, space, and mediated communication: Exploring context collapse (pp. 29-44). Routledge.
Book Review
Mobility and locative Media: Mobile communication in hybrid spaces, by A. de Souza e Silva and M. Sheller
Buccitelli, A. B. (2016).
New Media & Society, 18(4), 669-672.
Book Chapter
Net locality.
de Souza e Silva, A., & Gordon, E. (2014).
In P. Adey, D. Bissell, K. Hannam, P. Merriman & M. Sheller (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Mobilities (pp. 134-142). Routledge.
Book
Mobility and Locative Media: Mobile communication in hybrid spaces.
de Souza e Silva, A., & Sheller, M. (2014). Routledge.
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