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Since 1972, Science, Technology, & Human Values has provided a forum for cutting-edge research and debate in the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS). This is a collectively edited, peer-reviewed, transnational, interdisciplinary journal containing research, analyses and commentary on the development and dynamics of science and technology, with a focus on their relationship to politics, economy, society and culture.

ST&HV publishes and seeks to foster work that is politically and ethically engaged from scholars from across the social sciences and humanities. It is committed to publishing both field-defining and field-extending work, expanding the purview of the field into new areas, and intervening in a common set of conceptual and topical conversations. The journal publishes work that contributes to STS and makes a contribution with STS, emphasising that theory, method and practice unfold in situated assemblages.

To find out more about the journal, read it, or submit your research for consideration, please visit the publisher‘s website.


Special Issues 

The editorial group of Science, Technology, & Human Values announces the journal’s 2024 Call for Proposals for Special Issues. The process for this Call for Proposals is:

  1. Interested scholars should submit a proposal using the Google form by 21 June 2024. All proposals should include a working title for the Special Issue; names, affiliations, and short biographies of guest editors (100 words each); a 800-word outline of the proposed Special Issue theme (approx. 400 words) and its significant contribution to the field of STS (approx. 400 words); and, the names, affiliations, and short abstracts for 3-4 potential contributions. Proposals will be selected on the basis of: a) overall quality; b) the extent to which they represent a field-defining intervention in STS; c) their potential to attract a diverse range of contributions from scholars internationally. 
  2. In August 2024, the editors of ST&HV will choose one Special Issue proposal to proceed. The editors may also select and invite other proposals to proceed as shorter Thematic Collections if suitable.
  3. The editors of the selected Special Issue proposal(s) will issue an open call for further proposed articles on their theme, closing no earlier than 1 October 2024. A Special Issue will typically contain 7-8 research articles. Diversity of contributions from scholars internationally, and at different career stages, is encouraged.
  4. The guest editors of the selected Special Issue proposal(s) will submit the full Special Issue for peer review no later than 1 March 2025. Individual manuscripts should be no more than 8,000 words including endnotes and references. Articles that are accepted through peer review will subsequently appear OnlineFirst as ready before the publication of the Special Issue in full, anticipated in 2026.

Please submit your proposal using the Google form by 21 June 2024. All general inquiries should be sent in the first instance to Carolina Caliaba (Managing Editor) at sthvjournal@gmail.com. 

You can find out more about ST&HV’s current submission requirements and style guide. For more on what constitutes a contribution to the field of STS, see the editor’s recent editorial: What is an STS Contribution Now?


Recent Publications

Buttery Smooth: Privacy’s Bundling with Attention in Web Browser Performance

Lake Polan1Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

Science, Technology, & Human Values, Volume 50, Issue 5, Page 1046-1071, September 2025.
Long considered an object of the law, Americans increasingly encounter privacy via the operations and settings of networked technologies....

Semantic Web Practices: Infrastructural Politics and the Future of the Web

Susan Halford, Mark Weal, Faranak Hardcastle, Nicholas Gibbins, Samantha Pearman-Kanza, Catherine Pope

Science, Technology, & Human Values, Volume 50, Issue 5, Page 907-931, September 2025.
In the past thirty years, the Web has developed from its inception as a layer of protocols on top of the Internet to use by more than...

Loving Technologies? Beyond Climate Finance's Logics of Scalability in Infrastructures in Fiji

Kirsty Anantharajah1110452University of Canberra Faculty of Business Government & Law, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

Science, Technology, & Human Values, Volume 50, Issue 5, Page 962-988, September 2025.
This paper explores how climate finance approaches and logics, particularly around scale, manifest in local climate technologies in Fiji....

A Sustainable City Made By Resident-Experts - How Designerly Intervention Enacted Rights of the Public and Urban Infrastructure

Donghyun Koo1Sociology, 8784University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA

Science, Technology, & Human Values, Volume 50, Issue 5, Page 1016-1045, September 2025.
This paper proposes an investigation of how enacting infrastructure is intertwined with historically specific processes of constructing...

The Architectures of Secrecy: Negotiating Openness and Privacy in Buildings of Science and Technology

Benjamin Blackwell1Department of Architecture, 5292University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

Science, Technology, & Human Values, Volume 50, Issue 5, Page 1072-1103, September 2025.
Contemporary buildings of science and technology commonly aspire to break down boundaries between disciplines and expertise, seeking...