This special issue is based in the belief that theoretically informed, methodologically diverse, and sociotechnically inspired research is our best approach for understanding contemporary entanglements between the technological and social aspects of work, and for grappling with what that means for our futures. In this Editors’ Introduction to JCMC’s Technology and the Future of Work special issue, we synthesize emergent themes across the eleven papers included and reflect on productive analytic lenses for anticipating how technologies may shape social and work practices, and vice versa. We identify four themes woven across the papers—visibility, relationships, boundaries, and power—and explicate some of the ways that social, technical, temporal, and communicative dimensions of work emerge across a variety of work contexts. Together, these papers highlight the creative, sense-making, and collaborative dynamics of the technologically infused workplace while acknowledging the amorphous nature of work and place, past, present and future.

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迈向工作的新未来：编辑介绍技术和工作的未来特刊

本期特刊相信，理论丰富、方法多样、受社会技术启发的研究是我们理解当代工作的技术和社会方面之间的纠葛以及解决这对我们的未来意味着什么的最佳方法。在这本 JCMC 技术与工作未来特刊的编辑简介中，我们综合了所包含的 11 篇论文中的新兴主题，并反思了富有成效的分析镜头，以预测技术如何塑造社会和工作实践，反之亦然。我们确定了贯穿论文的四个主题——可见性、关系、界限和权力——并解释了工作的社会、技术、时间和交流维度在各种工作环境中出现的一些方式。一起，