[STS-Africa] REMINDER 🦄 CfA Hype Studies Conference 🦄 / Submit till 10.5.

[Jascha Bareis]

Dear STS Africa list members,

Please consider submitting an abstract (academic, practitioner or 
artistic) to the *newly founded Hype Studies Platform*, organising its 
first edition of the *Hype Studies Conference* "DON'T BELIEVE THE HYPE" 
in Barcelona, the 10th-12th of September, 2025.

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

*Abstract submission is open till the 10th of May.*

*Hybrid particiapation possible. Participation free of charge.
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*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 at 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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*Dr. 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*

(Don’t) believe the hype?!Hype Studies <https://hypestudies.org/>


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>


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