Science & Technology Studies (S&TS)

About the journal

In response to the steady growth of our field, EASST is proud to support a flagship open access journal for the whole STS community, which is independent of commercial publishing houses, without article processing charges, meaning that the journal is free to publish at every stage. The journal publishes four issues per year: in February, May, September and December. The journal impact factor is 2.9 (2020).

Science & Technology Studies is the official journal of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) and the Finnish Association for Science and Technology Studies. The journal is a development of Science Studies, which has a history of internationally peer-reviewed publications since 1988. Find the history of the journal on the S&TS website and follow the journal on twitter.

EASST members will be emailed when a new issue is available with its contents and access details. If you do not receive this email please contact office(at)easst.nomadit.net.

We invite prospective authors to submit their work to S&TS. Notes for authors can be found journal’s dedicated website.

Current Journal Content

  • Thinking Like a Machine
    by Dipanjan Saha, Phillip Brooker, Michael Mair, Stuart Reeves
    As part of ongoing research bridging ethnomethodology and computer science, in this article we offer an alternate reading of Alan Turing’s 1936 paper, “On Computable Numbers”. Following through Turing’s machinic respecification of computation, we hope to contribute to a deflationary position on AI by showing that the activities attributed to AIs are achieved in the […]
  • Introduction
    by Jonathan P. Marshall, Rebekah Cupitt
    The authors in this special issue present case studies of socio-cultural responses to technologies in terms of their relationships with ‘ethics’ and ‘politics,’ to ecologies, and to the ways in which those technological processes are framed as empowering, alienating, dispossessing, transformative or destructive. This introduction elaborates some connections between the papers, focusing on the ways […]
  • Caton James Lee (ed) (2022) The Economics of Blockchain and Cryptocurrency: A Transaction Costs Revolution
    by Jongheon Kim
  • Ermoshina Ksenia and Musiani Francesca (2022) Concealing for Freedom: The making of Encryption, Secure Messaging and Digital Liberties
    by Samuele Fratini
  • Technologies of Ecological Mediation
    by Birgit Bräuchler
    Different world views and ontologies require different technologies to deal with environmental issues. Land reclamation plans in Bali’s south, meant to open up new space for tourist development, triggered strong but varied responses in the Balinese population, from rejection to enthusiasm. All actors claim to aim towards a prosperous Bali, and at the protection of […]
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