Let's up the hype for the hype panel!
For every other hype though, we recommend taking our self-paced Hype Literacy course – work by Jascha Bareis, @imaginaries.bsky.social, @klingebeil.bsky.social and Steffen Leidel.
Johannes, fingers crossed for your flight. See you at @journalismfestival.com!
We just published a free, self-paced course on hype literacy especially tailored to journalists by Jascha Bareis and @imaginaries.bsky.social (@hypestudies.bsky.social), @klingebeil.bsky.social and Steffen Leidel.
Check it out here: akademie.dw.com/en/the-hype-...
Hype is a powerful force shaping not only technology, but also politics, the economy, culture, and our perception of progress. Proud of this free tool, open to anyone interested in overpromising in tech and how to navigate it in a clickbait driven attention economy.
The fourth article in our @hypestudies.bsky.social series at at @techpolicypress.bsky.social is out. Brilliant work by @marche.bsky.social and Kathy Cleary exposing how AI hype obfuscates the extractive practices behind training and labelling LLMs.
Some images from my forthcoming speculative video essay, Metabolism of Techno-Financial Worlding. In it, I explore venture capital as a massive artefact fed by an energy called Reality³, whose function is to invoke entities from the imaginary realm and install them in our world, transforming it.
We promised more news about the upcoming Hype Studies Glossary so let's start with page 1!
🥦 Recruitment call: book cover illustrator/designer 🧀
Whoever came up with the saying "don't judge a book by its cover" must be a audible user. We're definitely in the "picture is worth a 1000 words" camp!
I started writing a BlueSky post about that Nature essay and kept going until it turned into a whole piece in Tech Policy Press www.techpolicy.press/the-illusion...
@maxrossmann.bsky.social
We're waking up from the winter slumber to share some very exciting news!
We've signed a book contract!
"Hype Studies: A Glossary" is coming to your shelves in 2027. We are delighted to share we've signed a book contract with open access publisher, transcript Verlag.
How is Sam Altman's World infrastructuring a post-democratic AI future? In this paper published in AI & Society, @laura4lano.bsky.social and I analyse how World's value is built on sociotechnical fictions & existential risk narratives that advance a cyberlibertarian transition. tinyurl.com/c8kt4bbz
Estrenamos en @elsaltodiario.com colaboración con @hypestudies.bsky.social traduciendo al español sus artículos sobre tecnopolítica.
Se estrenan con esta maravilla de texto sobre el hype y fondos de inversión de Andreu Belsunces @imaginaries.bsky.social www.elsaltodiario.com/hype-studies...
for more crypto histories & imaginaries tune into www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_gW...
@lanalanalana.bsky.social , Andreu Belsunces
@imaginaries.bsky.social & Kobe De Keere cattting to @philiproscoe.bsky.social and @addiemcgowan.bsky.social
Is there a risk that the dynamics of military technology hype enroll us all into a war hype? I argue yes in this piece just published by @techpolicypress.bsky.social. www.techpolicy.press/tech-venture...
Really enjoyed the conversation for the @jcultecon.bsky.social podcast. We discussed the paper we wrote with @arturocastro.bsky.social on how crypto embeds and reproduces neoliberalism, and how it participates in and benefits from crisis.
Enjoy the podcast, and please be patient with my Spanglish!
Chart showing 16-year-old Adam Raine’s use of ChatGPT from the start of his account to his death by suicide in April 2025
Kevin’s chart really says it all. this is what it looks like when a vulnerable user gets sucked in by an engagement optimized chatbot
When a tech bubble grows, venture capital cashes in. Its high risk, high reward model depends on constantly persuading others that its futures matter. That’s why VC has a structural need for hype.
Read my latest piece at @techpolicypress.bsky.social + @hypestudies.bsky.social
The toolkit is still in beta. We hope to release it in the first quarter of next year -along with a hype literacy toolkit for journalists 🙏🏼👩🏼🏫
Also at @mozilla.org Fest, check out this AMAZING interactive installation, a visual database of AGI hype discourse, created by a group of talented students: hype-arenas.xyz It’s beautiful to see how one’s own research can step beyond academic language and become this ⬇️
Getting ready to my talk on Artificial General Intelligence as a form of both Deep Hype and as Futures Governance instrument at @mozilla.org Fest. Come by if you around! schedule.mozillafestival.org/session/159
If you’re at @mozilla.org Fest this Saturday, join @hypestudies.bsky.social for a conversation on hype as a tech governance instrument by other means. The discussion will be facilitated through the first version of our Hype Literacy Toolkit 🖖
🔗 schedule.mozillafestival.org/session/31
"Ten lossmaking artificial intelligence start-ups have gained close to $1tn in valuation over the past 12 months, an unprecedented increase that adds to fears about an inflating bubble in private markets that could spill over into the wider economy."
The weird & reactionary technopolitics of today are the result of 30+ years of debate among US technologists. Our paper with @arturocastro.bsky.social "Cryptofinancial Imaginaries" is out in the new issue of Journal of Cultural Economy.
Thrilled to be part of this debate: tinyurl.com/24ptrbkn
And that's a wrap! @hypestudies.bsky.social conference over and out! 🫡Thank you so much to all the incredible people who attended.
This is what academia can be 🫶
Final preparations for our conference! 🎩
We are tremendously excited to welcome all participants in-person and online tomorrow for the first conference on Hype Studies! The time has come 😊😊
Wishing safe travels to all those who are joining us from afar!
We are most honoured to host our book launch event for Neil Pollock and Robin Williams's deeply anticipated 'After Hype'!
A very special applause for our group's rising star Isa Luiten! Isa not only presented her amazing work on NewSpace and Hype from her forthcoming Thesis, but is also our tireless research assistant, keeping the Hype Studies group and conference in place. Thank you, Isa!
Fantastic panel today on 'AI Hype: Between Power and Resistance' with amazing contributions by Kat Fuller, @danmk.bsky.social, Tianqi Kou, Dana Calacci, Nasser Eledroos, and Jacek Mańko who also acted as stellar chair, debating power across multiple themes, from anti-trans hype to AGI!
What is deep hype? 🕳️ This week at @hypestudies.bsky.social Conference I'll present a paper where I define deep hype as a "long-term dynamic that projects civilisational transformation through uncertain futures, making its promises unverifiable in the present" arxiv.org/pdf/2508.19749
Join us at the hybrid keynote at the @hypestudies.bsky.social Conference by Gemma Milne, author of "Smoke & Mirrors: How Hype Obscures the Future and How to See Past It"
Wednesday 10Sept from 17 to 18:30 CEST.
Free with previous registration: framaforms.org/dont-believe...
The final programme and the abstract booklet for the @hypestudies.bsky.social Conference is out!
Programme: hypestudies.org/media/pages/...
Booklet hypestudies.org/media/pages/...
Join us online at from 10-12/9 at hypestudies.org