階級形成的核心是文化轉型。本文嘗試通過空間、科技、和表徵著認同的「聲音(voice)」的變遷來理解當代中國工人階級生活被表達、勾連和再生産的獨特方式。論文選取了一定程度上可代表新老兩代工人階級文化的兩個個案：鞍山和北京皮村。分別檢視了實體空間、數位網絡，和其中的聲音。研究的實證資料，蒐集自反復的實地考察，對當地主要參與者的訪談，對工人線下的文化活動的參與式觀察，以及工人在線溝通模式的觀察。在方法論上，本文嘗試通過這種考察發展一個更精確的比較分析框架，以其爲空間、技術與當代中國階級變遷的理論勾連提供一個可能的新視野。

Cultural transformation is central to class formation. By culture, which in this paper is related to space, technology, and voice , we understand the distinctive ways of expressing, articulating, and reproducing working-class life that are essential to the class identity and class consciousness of China’s working classes, old and new. This paper analyzes two workers5 cultural spaces, in Anshan and Beijing’s Pi Village, respectively, with examinations of the physical space, the digital networked space, and the voices therein. Empirical data are gathered through repeated site visits, interviews with key local actors, participant observation in workers’ cultural events (offline), and observation of workers’ online communication patterns. Methodologically, this paper tries to develop a more refined comparative framework, which offer a revision for the theoretical articulation among space, technology, and class formation in China.