Congratulations to Adriana de Souza e Silva on being appointed Chair of The International Communication Association’s Mobile Communication Division! Her tenure as Chair of the Division will run from 2025-2027.

The Mobile Communication Division is a worldwide network of 250+ scholars involved in the International Communication Association (ICA). The Mobile Communication Division focuses on the social consequences of mobile media use and mobile communication. Thus, the Division is at the intersection of mobility, technology, social structure, and culture in human communication. Scholarship includes a wide array of perspectives and approaches in communication studies, but always through the angle of mobility and mobile communication. This ranges from historical perspectives to studies on future media innovations, from ethnographic to quantitative empirical approaches, and from journalism studies to media effects research. The common ground of the Division is state-of-the-art analysis and theorizing about mobile communication and its social consequences.

Adriana de Souza e Silva is a Professor of Communication Studies and Director of CAMD’s Center for Transformative Media. Her research investigates how engagement with mobile and locative media technologies shape urban mobility and interactions with public spaces, primarily in the developing world. In particular, she focuses on the creative ways people engage with mobile technologies through location-based games and mobile media art.

She is the author or co-author of 7 books, and over 50 articles in peer-reviewed publications. Dr. de Souza e Silva has recently received the Distinguished University Graduate Professor award from the NC State University’ Alumni Association. She has also twice won the NC State University’s College of Humanities and Social Sciences Outstanding Researcher Award. Over the course of her career, de Souza e Silva has held visiting appointments or positions at NC State University (USA), the Pontifical Catholic University (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), and the IT University of Copenhagen (Denmark). She teaches classes on mobile communication, internet studies, and histories/theories of technology.