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

We are a group of researchers and designers exploring how hype is a thing that does things. As a force composing and affecting attention, markets, politics, feelings, imagination, matter and knowledge, time and space. The Hype Studies group will be sharing resources and organising 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. Look at the Call for papers.