Toward work’s new futures: Editors’ Introduction to
Technology and the Future of Work special issue

Toward work’s new futures: Editors’ Introduction to
Technology and the Future of Work special issue

that theoretically informed, methodologically diverse, and sociotechnically

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.

Nancy Baym1,*, Nicole B. Ellison2

https://doi.org/10.1093/jcmc/zmad031

Accepted: 5 June 2023

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