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Software Presentation: The Retro Mobile Gaming Database
de Souza e Silva, A., & Glover-Rijkse, R. (2023). Mobile Media & Communication, 11(3), 566-571.
This article presents the Retro Mobile Gaming Database as a significant contribution to the field of mobile media studies, highlighting its methodology, scope, and potential applications for researchers.
Read PaperPlayful Urban Spaces: A Historical Approach to Mobile Games
de Souza e Silva, A., & Hjorth, L. (2009). Simulation & Gaming, 40(5), 602-625.
This paper explores the history of mobile games and their relationship to urban spaces, examining how mobile games transform our experience of physical spaces and create new forms of social interaction.
Read PaperMobile Game Studies - A Reappraisal
de Souza e Silva, A. (2014). In Routledge Companion to Mobile Media, 209-218.
This chapter reexamines mobile game studies, tracing the evolution of the field and proposing new frameworks for understanding mobile games in the context of broader media studies.
Read PaperFrom Cyber to Hybrid: Mobile Technologies as Interfaces of Hybrid Spaces
de Souza e Silva, A. (2006). Space and Culture, 9(3), 261-278.
This paper introduces the concept of hybrid spaces, examining how mobile technologies, including mobile games, blur the boundaries between physical and digital spaces.
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