Dear AoIRs I would be delighted if you could circulate this CfA in your communities. We would particularly appreciate contributions from communication and media studies *Call for Abstracts: “Assessing the (de)construction of technological hypes”.* https://www.tatup.de/downloads/TATuP_CfA_3_2023-REP.pdf**** This call advertises for the interdisciplinary TATuP Special topic in issue 3/2023. Please read the complete CfA here <https://www.tatup.de/index.php/tatup/announcement/view/47> online. Deadline for submitting your abstract: *03 February 2023*. TaTuP's readership is the academic community but also a broader interested audience! Guest editors of this TATuP Special topic: Jascha Bareis (ITAS/ KIT, HIIG), Maximilian Roßman (Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University, Netherlands), and Frédérique Bordignon (Ecole des Ponts ParisTech & LISIS lab, France) Best Jascha Bareis -- Signatur *Jascha Bareis* (Profile) <https://www.itas.kit.edu/english/staff_bareis_jascha.php>(Scholar) <https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=bf1gf9AAAAAJ&hl=de&oi=ao>(LinkedIn) <https://www.linkedin.com/in/jascha-bareis-36082523b/> Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) <https://www.itas.kit.edu/english/index.php> Karlsruher Institute of Technology (KIT) <https://www.kit.edu/english/index.php> Research Group Digital Technology and Societal Change (FG DigIT) <https://www.itas.kit.edu/english/rg_digit.php> *Recent Publications* Talking AI into Being: The Narratives of National AI Strategies and Their Performative Politics, with C. Katzenbach. Science, Technology, & Human Values <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01622439211030007> “Autonomous Weapons“ as a geopolitical signifier in a national power play: analyzing AI imaginaries in Chinese and US military policies, with T.C. Bächle. European Journal of Futures Research <https://eujournalfuturesresearch.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40309-022-00202-w> * *