GENDER A VÝZKUM | 1 | Volume 25 • Number 1 / 2024 Convergences: Communication, Work, and Gender Nicoleta Elena Apostol a , Romina Surugiu a a ) University of Bucharest Apostol, Nicoleta Elena, Surugiu, Romina. 2024. Convergences: Communication, Work, and Gender. Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 25 (2): XX–XX, https://doi.org/10.13060/ gav.2024.019. The premise of this thematic issue is that work and communication are converging, and that the process is upheld by interactive (digital) technologies. ‘Convergences’ (in plural) was chosen to emphasise the ‘always-existing entanglement’ (McRobbie 2011:61) between the ‘nature’ of work, gender, and other dimensions of identity, such as social class, age, race, ethnicity, educational background, occupational status, job type, bodily and cognitive abilities, non-normative sexualities, and nationality. The intrinsic link between labour and technology surfaces regularly in public de- bates, which include concerns about risks to the workforce in the future, as we have seen in the past decade with the rise of generative artificial intelligence (Reeves 2016). Currently, we experience ‘technology’ through the intensification of our in- teractions with it (Rogers 1986). An interaction necessarily involves another entity (human, non-human); it relies on action and cognition and manifests across differ- ent forms of communication, verbal and non-verbal. Interactive technologies have created a media ecology with different genres of participation compared to print media, radio, and television (Madianou, Miller 2013). The increased access to digital infrastructure and the relative affordability of devices have led to an environment in which we alternate between being on- and off-line. A major outcome is that pro- duction (remunerated work in the market) and social reproduction (the unpaid work needed to make life itself possible, for oneself and for others) are further enabled to go along. The household is no longer considered the sole site of social reproduction, nor is social reproduction limited to housework and care responsibilities, as it has instead come to be understood as ‘the work of creating and sustaining social forms