This conference aims to examine hype as a performative force, exploring its mechanisms, effects, and implications across different domains. From the speculative visions of emerging technologies to political rhetoric, from financial bubbles to cultural trends, we seek to understand how hype operates, who benefits from it, and how it transforms the social, media, political, economic and technological landscape.
The DN34 International Conference on Discourse, Identity and Polarisation
This hybrid conference provides an interdisciplinary space for examining how individual and group identities are discursively constructed in today's increasingly polarised societies, and how discourse both reflects and shapes emerging social divisions.