Dr.Bareis is one of the multi-authore writer of an international position paper - a community process that has started almost two years ago:

Towards Mapping and Defining Critical Hype Studies: Multidisciplinary Insights and Future Directions

The paper offers a programmatic analysis of the field of critical hype studies, acknowledging and identifying intellectual origins and research and hype literacy agenda, theoretical-methodological frameworks, a summative potpourri of our wide authoring team's empirical works, an attempt to capture our dilemmas and obstacles in pursuing critical hype studies, and a long list of bibliography.

For history, the Hype Studies group was initiated during the proceedings of the EASST-4S Conference 2024, when Vassilis Galanos and Andreu Belsunces Gonçalves invited a panel with the precise goal of writing this paper with as many people as possible interested in the concept of hype. The various workings of the group itself (our own conference, presence at panels, other activities) shaped themselves the final format of the paper, as we gained more empirical experience as to what does it mean to study hype critically.

Hype studies hope that this position paper will stand as inspiration across academic, industry, civil society, activist, and other social circles, aiming to become a key reference for future hype-related research. 

https://zenodo.org/records/18764034