[Air-L] 🦄 CfA Hype Studies Conference 🦄 / (DON'T) BELIEVE THE HYPE / Submit till 10.5.

[Jascha Bareis]

Dear list members,

Please consider to submit an abstract (academic or artistic) to the 
*newly founded Hype Studies Platform*, organising its first edition a 
*Hype Studies Conference* in Barcelona, the 10th-12th of September, 2025.

You can find the CfP on the brand new webpage: https://hypestudies.org/

*What is Hype studies about?*

Hype Studies is an emergent, transdisciplinary research arena aimed at 
inquiring hype as a powerful and pervasive phenomenon that influences 
economic trends, political agendas, media narratives, and technological 
developments.

We are a group of researchers, scholars and designers exploring how hype 
is a thing that does things. A force composing and affecting attention, 
markets, politics, feelings, imagination, matter, knowledge and the 
social experience of time. The Hype Studies Platform is aimed at sharing 
resources and events to collectively understand and intervene into hype 
and its politics.

Join us to the inaugural conference at the Universitat Oberta de 
Catalunya this September. We will organise the conference around these 
themes and formats:


        *THEMATIC TRACKS*

 1.

    *Concepts and characteristics*: How to define hype against rivaling
    concepts in academic and media representations? What is the
    difference between hype an imaginaries, trends, alarmism, visions,
    expectations or futures?

 2.

    *Dynamics and temporalities*: How can hype be read, studied,
    assessed - or even anticipated? When and where does hype happen? How
    can linguistic, narratological, artistic, historic, ethnographic,
    statistical and bibliometric, or discourse analytical approaches
    inform the study of hype?

 3.

    *Engaging*: How do practitioners and artists depict, experience,
    produce and deal with hypes? We welcome contributions on topics
    ranging from debunking, myth-busting, fact-checking, training in
    journalism, science and technology communication, artistic
    interventions...


        *FORMATS*

 1.

    *Panel presentation*: Traditional academic panel where you will
    present your research or insight into a topic, theory, initiative or
    project and its background. The conference organisers will put your
    proposal along other 3 similar.

 2.

    *Open floor*: Curate a discussion space, where two or more people
    gather to discuss about a topic, concept, project or event. We
    expect this format to be interactive and participatory, including
    the audience. You can submit individually, or as a group.

 3.

    *Making and Doing*: Present on the conference space action-research
    projects, workshops, activist interventions, games, video art and
    other experiments. We will incorporate your work on the conference
    location as an art installation, workshop/game or a video.
    Alternatively, you can also pitch a format you find inspirational
    (open format).

With best regards,

The hype study group


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*Jascha Bareis*(Profile) 
<https://www.itas.kit.edu/english/staff_bareis_jascha.php>(Scholar) 
<https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=bf1gf9AAAAAJ&hl=de&oi=ao>(LinkedIn) 
<https://www.linkedin.com/in/jascha-bareis-36082523b/>

Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis(ITAS) 
<https://www.itas.kit.edu/english/index.php>

Karlsruher Institute of Technology(KIT) 
<https://www.kit.edu/english/index.php>

Research Group Digital Technology and Societal Change(FG DigIT) 
<https://www.itas.kit.edu/english/rg_digit.php>


*Recent Publications*

Ask Me Anything ! 😈How ChatPGT Got Hyped Into Being.SOC ARXIV Preprint 
<https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/jzde2>

The Trustification of AI. Disclosing the bridging pillars that tie Trust 
and AI together.Big Data & Society 
<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20539517241249430>

Technology Hype: Dealing with bold expectations and overpromising, with 
M. Roßmann and F.Bordignon.Journal of Technology Assessment in Theory 
and Practice <https://www.tatup.de/index.php/tatup/article/view/7073>