The increased digitalization of work results in practices that are increasingly networked and knowledge-based. As such, we need to continuously inquire how digital technology leads to changes in work and not be content knowing that it leads to change. This paper contributes to advancing such knowledge through an analysis of digitalized condition-based maintenance of machinery in a Swedish iron ore mine. Drawing on the distinction between digital representation and digital meditation figurations of human and material agency, we analyze how the distributed network of workers used a diverse portfolio of digital technologies to make complex knowledge-based decisions on when and how to maintain the mining machinery. We combine these empirical insights with extant literature to advance a new theoretical perspective on how key characteristics of digital technologies are implicated in networked, knowledge-based work practices.

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数字化工作中的代表和调解：来自矿山机械维护的证据

工作数字化程度的提高导致实践越来越网络化和基于知识。因此，我们需要不断探究数字技术如何导致工作发生变化，而不是满足于知道它会导致变化。本文通过对瑞典铁矿中机械数字化状态维护的分析，有助于推进此类知识的发展。利用人类和物质机构的数字表示和数字冥想形象之间的区别，我们分析了分布式工人网络如何使用多样化的数字技术组合来就何时以及如何维护采矿机械做出复杂的基于知识的决策。