Science, Technology & Human Values

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:

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.
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.
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.
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

“Kids are Kids”: Benevolent Ignorance and the Omission of Race in Developmental Justice Reform

William Wannyn1Institute for Society and Genetics, 8783University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Science, Technology, & Human Values, Volume 51, Issue 3, Page 598-630, May 2026.
The criminal culpability of juvenile offenders remains a controversial and contested issue in the legal and public arenas in the United States....

An Enquiry Into Modes of Non-Existence

Govert Valkenburg1Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

Science, Technology, & Human Values, Volume 51, Issue 3, Page 664-688, May 2026.
After the many symmetries (subject-object, truth-falsity, etc.) that science and technology studies (STS) has explored, one symmetry seems unaddressed:...

Going with the Flow: Moving Cells and Changing Values in Biomedical Practice

Pierre Delvenne, Hadrien Macq, Céline ParotteAuthor BiographiesPierre Delvenne is a senior research associate of the Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS) and Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Liège, where he directs the Spiral Research Center and the Interdisciplinary Research Unit Cité. His research lies at the intersection of science and technology studies and political economy, focusing on the multiple struggles within the political and cultural economies of science, technology, and innovation.Hadrien Macq is a postdoctoral researcher at the Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS) and at the University of Liège, Belgium (Department of Political Science). His research analyzes the interactions between innovation policies, public participation, and urban governance. His current postdoctoral project investigates the development and use of Digital Twins and associated urban digital modeling technologies in a comparative perspective.Céline Parotte is an associate professor of Public Policy and Methodology in the Department of Political Science at the University of Liège, Belgium. At the Spiral Research Center, she leads a research program on the politics of decay of large industrial infrastructures. Her current research focuses on the management and control of high-risk infrastructures (e.g., nuclear facilities, radioactive waste, windmills), participatory and qualitative methods, and the evaluation of controversial public policies.1Spiral Research Centre, Department of Political Science, University of Liège, Belgium

Science, Technology, & Human Values, Volume 51, Issue 3, Page 503-530, May 2026.
Science and technology studies have devoted considerable attention to the economic implications of biomedical technoscience. This article enriches...

Trained Judgements Artificial Intelligence, Epistemic Tensions and the Production of Scientific Objectivity

Giulia Anichini, Baptiste Kotras

Science, Technology, & Human Values, Volume 51, Issue 3, Page 631-663, May 2026.
In this paper, we investigate uses of AI (Artificial intelligence) in two distinct fields: radiology and prehistoric archaeology. We examine...

The Racial Spectacular: Pandemic Governance Through Dashboards and State Biosecurity

Shiloh Krupar, Nadine Ehlers

Science, Technology, & Human Values, Volume 51, Issue 3, Page 565-597, May 2026.
Data visualizations related to COVID-19 operate as forms of spectacle essential to the racialized governance of the pandemic. Guy Debord theorized...