What Is an STS Contribution Now?

Submission guidelines tell authors that the journal is "committed to science and technology studies scholarship" but also welcomes work "that extends the purview of STS into new areas."[1] Functioning well, the peer-review process forms a recursive loop where authors and reviewers iteratively revisit and renovate what science and technology studies (STS) was, is, and can be. As part of the infrastructuring of STS, I ST&HV i needs to work with both centrifugal and centripetal forces, publishing both field-defining and field-extending work. We have been in the role of editors of I Science, Technology, & Human Values i ( I ST&HV i ) for a little over six months now. [Extracted from the article]