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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear STS Africa list members,<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.<br>
<br>
You can find the CfP on the brand new webpage: <a
href="https://hypestudies.org/"
title="https://hypestudies.org/"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" moz-do-not-send="true">https://hypestudies.org/</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Abstract submission is open till the
10th of May.</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Hybrid particiapation possible.
Participation free of charge.<br>
</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><br>
</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> *What is Hype studies about?*<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
We are a group of researchers, scholars and designers
exploring how hype<br>
is a thing that does things. A force composing and affecting
attention,<br>
markets, politics, feelings, imagination, matter, knowledge
and the<br>
social experience of time. The Hype Studies Platform is
aimed at sharing<br>
resources and events to collectively understand and
intervene into hype<br>
and its politics.<br>
<br>
Join us at the inaugural conference at the Universitat
Oberta de<br>
Catalunya this September. We will organise the conference
around these<br>
themes and formats:<br>
<br>
<br>
*THEMATIC TRACKS*<br>
<br>
1. *Concepts and characteristics*: How to
define hype against rivaling<br>
concepts in academic and media representations? What is
the<br>
difference between hype an imaginaries, trends,
alarmism, visions,<br>
expectations or futures?<br>
<br>
2. *Dynamics and temporalities*: How can hype be read,
studied,<br>
assessed - or even anticipated? When and where
does hype happen? How<br>
can linguistic, narratological, artistic, historic,
ethnographic,<br>
statistical and bibliometric, or discourse analytical
approaches<br>
inform the study of hype?<br>
<br>
3. *Engaging*: How do practitioners and artists depict,
experience,<br>
produce and deal with hypes? We welcome contributions on
topics<br>
ranging from debunking, myth-busting, fact-checking,
training in<br>
journalism, science and technology communication,
artistic<br>
interventions...<br>
<br>
<br>
*FORMATS*<br>
<br>
1. *Panel presentation*: Traditional academic panel where
you will<br>
present your research or insight into a topic, theory,
initiative or<br>
project and its background. The conference organisers
will put your<br>
proposal along other 3 similar.<br>
<br>
2. *Open floor*: Curate a discussion space, where two or
more people<br>
gather to discuss about a topic, concept, project or
event. We<br>
expect this format to be interactive and participatory,
including<br>
the audience. You can submit individually, or as a
group.<br>
<br>
3. *Making and Doing*: Present on the conference space
action-research<br>
projects, workshops, activist interventions, games,
video art and<br>
other experiments. We will incorporate your work on the
conference<br>
location as an art installation, workshop/game or a
video.<br>
Alternatively, you can also pitch a format you find
inspirational<br>
(open format).</p>
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<br>
With best regards,<br>
<br>
The hype study group</p>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><b>Dr. Jascha Bareis</b></span><span
class="s2"> <a
href="https://www.itas.kit.edu/english/staff_bareis_jascha.php"
moz-do-not-send="true"><span class="s3">(Profile)</span></a></span><span
class="s4"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=bf1gf9AAAAAJ&hl=de&oi=ao"
moz-do-not-send="true"><span class="s5">(Scholar)</span></a><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jascha-bareis-36082523b/"
moz-do-not-send="true"><span class="s5">(LinkedIn)</span></a></span><span
class="s6"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s7">Institute for Technology
Assessment and Systems Analysis</span><span class="s2"> <a
href="https://www.itas.kit.edu/english/index.php"
moz-do-not-send="true"><span class="s8">(ITAS)</span></a></span><span
class="s6"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s7">Karlsruher Institute of
Technology</span><span class="s2"> <a
href="https://www.kit.edu/english/index.php"
moz-do-not-send="true"><span class="s8">(KIT)</span></a></span><span
class="s6"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s7">Research Group Digital
Technology and Societal Change</span><span class="s9"> <a
href="https://www.itas.kit.edu/english/rg_digit.php"
moz-do-not-send="true"><span class="s10">(FG DigIT)</span></a></span><span
class="s6"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p>
<p class="p3"><span class="s7"></span><br>
</p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s7"><b>Recent</b></span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="s11">(Don</span><span class="s7">’t)
believe the hype?!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span
class="s2"> <a href="https://hypestudies.org/"
moz-do-not-send="true"><span class="s12">Hype Studies</span></a></span></p>
<p class="p3"><span class="s7"></span><br>
</p>
<p class="p5"><span class="s7">Ask Me Anything ! </span><span
class="s13">😈</span><span class="s14"> </span><span
class="s7">How ChatPGT Got Hyped Into Being.</span><span
class="s9"> <a
href="https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/jzde2"
moz-do-not-send="true"><span class="s15">SOC ARXIV
Preprint</span></a></span></p>
<p class="p5"><span class="s7">The Trustification of AI.
Disclosing the bridging pillars that tie Trust and AI
together.</span><span class="s9"> <a
href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20539517241249430"
moz-do-not-send="true"><span class="s16">Big Data
& Society</span></a></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s7">Technology Hype: Dealing with
bold expectations and overpromising, with M. Roßmann and
F.Bordignon.</span><span class="s2"> <a
href="https://www.tatup.de/index.php/tatup/article/view/7073"
moz-do-not-send="true"><span class="s8">Journal of
Technology Assessment in Theory and Practice</span></a></span></p>
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