With a nod to our @hypestudies.bsky.social meeting last week in Barcelona. Thanks Eryk.

Was amazing to have both @jackstilgoe.bsky.social and Christo join us for the @hypestudies.bsky.social conference!

Means the world, Michael!

Hype Studies party in the Sants neighbourhood of Barcelona, a small club lit with red light and lots of hypers having after hours getting down!

@hypestudies.bsky.social is/was a conference with a difference. Non-hierarchical, welcoming and stimulating. After party at a cool little club, and many other (serious) memories. 🕺🏾 👨🏾‍💻 #FirstAndFifteenthOnTheRoad #uxmichaelco

A POV shot showing a hand holding a small passport sized self-published booklet called HYPE: A critical field guide by the German design researcher Johannes Klingebiel.

Thank you @klingebeil.bsky.social for introducing me to HYPE: A Critical Field Guide. 🙌🏾

This will be a very useful pocket-sized reference as I begin to navigate @hypestudies.bsky.social

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Thank you to the Hype Studies group for bringing together such an eclectic group of scholars, practitioners, & artists at this conference! 🙌🏽
The critical experimental & non-hierarchical approach reminded me of Sarai :)

Lovely meeting you @sandeepmertia.bsky.social, thanks for joining us! 🙏 @hypestudies.bsky.social

📢 and who is looking for a job from December!

i wonder what they made of this at the @hypestudies.bsky.social conference last week

A few highlights from @hypestudies.bsky.social conference day 2! Thanks to all involved for another great day 🙏

Believe the hype. @hypestudies.bsky.social @danishanley.bsky.social @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social

Here was my first data point. The billionaires are relaxed about the AI bubble. They're owning the hype cycle. So how does hype studies respond? @hypestudies.bsky.social

BuzzFeed News Has Won Its First Pulitzer Prize For Exposing China’s System For Detaining Muslims BuzzFeed News won for its innovative series exposing China’s mass detention of Muslims and was named a finalist for its colossal FinCEN Files investigation into the global banking industry.

So many insights springing out of our Hype Studies conference in Barcelona. One, from investigative journalist Christo Buschek: the news outfits currently winning are those that resisted the previous wave of online hype @hypestudies.bsky.social. Christo was one of the team behind this

Last day of @hypestudies.bsky.social conference. All sorts of cool stuff going on! ✨

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 🫶

Thought provoking panel on Socio-ethical Dilemmas in Healthcare and Hype. Excellent presentations by Thomas Tsakalakis, Gili Yaron and Violet Petit-Steeghs, Sofie Kronberger, Albina Abzalova, and Roanne van Voorst, Ph.D. who also, masterfully, chaired the session.

So chuffed to get my hands on a physical copy of @klingebeil.bsky.social's beautiful "Hype: A Critical Field Guide" 💫 Since putting it together, Johannes has sent out over 700 copies 🔥 get yours here: johannesklingebiel.de/portfolio/a-...

Here we go, keynote time @hypestudies.bsky.social conference.

Packed room here and around 50 people tuning in online!

@gemmamilne.bsky.social rocking it, as per. 🔥🔥🔥

Thank you, Aida! Robin says hi!

@hypestudies.bsky.social hitting the town!

Looks like an amazing conference organised by the @hypestudies.bsky.social crew in Barcelona. Great work from @danishanley.bsky.social @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social and many others.@maastrichtu.bsky.social.

💮Keynote time💮
🔥Excited to close the first day of our conference with a talk by the amazing Gemma Milne on 'Hype and the Age of Badness'🔥
Opening by our Dani Shanley!

@gemmamilne.bsky.social
@danishanley.bsky.social

TODAY! 🤩

@gemmamilne.bsky.social

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!

Hosted by Ezequiel Soriano, greetings from our Shitpublishing Workshop! 'Nuff said.

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!

We are most honoured to host our book launch event for Neil Pollock and Robin Williams's deeply anticipated 'After Hype'!

Photo of a redbrick building that has been newly renovated so that it contains a glass front and modern interior, which is one of the buildings of Universitat Oberta de Catalunya in Barcelona.

Pulling up to @hypestudies.bsky.social at UOC Barcelona #uxmichaelco #TomorrowsEssaysBeingWrittenToday

Thank you @eryk.bsky.social and @ulissess.bsky.social ! For anyone else being here and potentially wondering, all links, stable over the course of the three days for every room can be found in our programme guide pdf, page 6 :)

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