[Air-L] Fwd: Towards Mapping and Defining Critical Hype Studies: Multi-author-position paper 🦄

[Jascha Bareis]

Dear Air community,

After nearly two years of preparation, our 26 scholars-multi 
author-position paper 'Towards Mapping and Defining Critical Hype 
Studies: Multidisciplinary Insights and Future Directions' is finally 
out! 🦄

We hope that this position paper will stand as inspiration across 
academic, industry, civil society, activist, and other social circles, 
aiming to become a key reference for future hype-related research.

https://zenodo.org/records/18764034

📖 The paper offers a programmatic analysis of the field of critical 
hype studies, acknowledging and identifying intellectual origins and 
research and hype literacy agenda, theoretical-methodological 
frameworks, a summative potpourri of our wide authoring team's empirical 
works, an attempt to capture our dilemmas and obstacles in pursuing 
critical hype studies, and...a long list of bibliography.

And while we recognise academic overlaps with studying *Trends, Buzz 
feeding**, Vision Assessment* or the *Sociology of Expectations*, we 
understand Hype Studies as a distinct academic research field that tries 
out new avenues.

See here why--> 
https://hypestudies.org/blog/is-hype-studies-just-sociology-of-expectations-2-0


🎊 It is worth noting that we decided to release the paper independently 
through the Zenodo depository, using the 21 co-authors' judgements and 
satisfiable review - we are nevertheless exploring options to publish 
with a scholarly journal as well - so more news on this to come!

All the best,

J.Bareis in the name of the members of Hype Studies

https://hypestudies.org/