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MIT Press Book Launch on November 24
Mobile Networked Creativity
Adriana de Souza e Silva · Mai Nou Xiong-Gum
At a time when “creativity” is marketed as a corporate skill or national resource, Mobile Networked Creativity exposes its deeper role within the struggles over power, mobility, and justice...
Book talk in January, 2027
CAMD Seed Grant Winners
March 24, 2026
College of Arts, Media and Design, Northeastern University
Exciting news! Several Center for Transformative Media faculty were awarded CAMD’s Creative Catalyst Phase 2 seed grants.
Congratulations to all the selected teams; these projects truly exemplify the program’s mission to bridge disciplines and push the boundaries of traditional research paradigms.
Creativity as survival: Crowdsourcing unexpected ways we use technology
June 7, 2022
NCSU News. North Carolina State University.
People and communities are constantly finding new uses for existing technologies – things the technology’s designers never intended, and possibly never even considered. To better understand this creative process, I’m part of a team of researchers that is collecting examples of how people are using mobile, networked technologies to accomplish........
This Northeastern professor wants to redefine what it means to be creative
April 29, 2025
Northeastern Global News. Northeastern University.
What does it mean to be creative? It’s a question with about as many answers as there are people on Earth, but Adriana de Souza e Silva wants to offer an alternative. With a new project called Mobile Networked Creativity, de Souza e Silva, a communication studies professor and director of the Center for Transformative Media at Northeastern University, ...
