Engaging Science, Technology, and Society

Engaging Science, Technology, and Society (ESTS) began as a societal conversation. At its 2013 annual conference, The Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) recognized the need for an STS journal that is open – to both a broad readership and authors who are engaged in the production of knowledge about science and technology in their social contexts. Throughout 2014, under the leadership of Kelly Moore and then-president Gary Lee Downey, 4S Council and the Publications Committee (Wen-Hua Kuo, Abby Kinchy, Ali Kenner, Laurel Smith-Doerr, Stephen Zehr, Paige Miller, and Katie Vann) devised an action plan for the journal. By Fall 2014, they were able to celebrate the incoming leadership of ESTS's inaugural editor, Daniel Lee Kleinman and managing editor, Katie Vann. In keeping with 4S's policies, ESTS joins a rare handful of rigorously peer-reviewed academic journals that do not charge author processing fees or subscription fees, the so-called "Diamond Model of Open Access." 4S offers ESTS in an effort to foster the development of truly open access publishing and well-informed critical technoscientific thought and action in society. In 2020, a new transnationally distributed editorial collective assumed editorship of the journal. Managing Editor Amanda Windle joined the editorial team in Dec 2020. Editorial Assistants Clément Dréano and Federico Vasen joined ESTS’s editorial team in June 2022.

 

Awards

Infrastructure Award
2024: Editorial Collective: Aalok Khandekar, Clément Dréano, Noela Invernizzi, Duygu Kaşdoğan, Ali Kenner, Angela Okune, Grant Jun Otsuki, Sujatha Raman, Tim Schütz, Federico Vasen, Amanda Windle, and Emily York were awarded the STS Infrastructure Award for "recent efforts to transnationalize and decolonize its publishing process, including attention to the editorial board composition, editorial work processes, review and submission processes, and the STS publishing ecosystem in which ESTS's editors have promoted valuable collaborations among multiple journals. This often-subtle infrastructural work is already supporting new visibilities and priorities for STS scholarship."

Infrastructure Award
2022: ESTS editor, Daniel Lee Kleinman and ESTS and ST&HV managing editor, Katie Vann were both awarded the STS Infrastructure Award as “Editorial Pillars of the Society and Field.”

Nicholas C. Mullins Honorable Mention
2024: ESTS Author, Chelsea Barabas was given an honorable mention by the Nicholas C. Mullins Prize jury for the "Refusal in Data Ethics: Re-Imagining the Code Beneath the Code of Computation in the Carceral State," (2022).

Nicholas C. Mullins Award
2022: ESTS Author, Alex Zahara was awarded the Nicholas C. Mullins Prize for the paper “Breathing Fire into Landscapes that Burn: Wildfire Management in a Time of Alterlife,” (2020).

Nicholas C. Mullins Award
2020: ESTS Author, Daniel G. Cumming, was awarded the Nicholas C. Mullins Prize for the paper, “Black Gold, White Power: Mapping Oil, Real Estate, and Racial Segregation in the Los Angeles Basin, 1900-1939,” (2018).