This edited volume on voices arose from the 2018 International Communication Association conference in Prague, Czech Republic. The contributions examine the conference’s central theme from multiple epistemological approaches, a host of methodologies, and numerous levels of analysis. They reveal how studying voice—or the plurality of voices—illuminates the process by which it is fostered and/or constrained as well as the conditions under which it is expressed and/or stifled. More important, the study of voice sheds light on the process by which it impacts behaviors, defines relationships, influences policies, and shapes the world in which we live. In other words, studies of voice are not relegated to a few domains, but interface with myriad discourses, actors, processes, and outcomes.

Patricia Moy (Ph.D., Wisconsin) is the Christy Cressey Professor of Communication and Associate Vice Provost of Academic and Student Affairs at the University of Washington. Editor of Public Opinion Quarterly, she is the president and an elected fellow of the International Communication Association.

Donald Matheson (Ph.D., Strathclyde) is head of the Department of Media and Communication and co-director of the Arts Digital Lab at the University of Canterbury. He is a former president of the Australian and New Zealand Communication Association. He is joint editor of Ethical Space: The International Journal of Communication Ethics.