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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.
List of contents
List of Figures and Tables - Patricia Moy and Donald Matheson: The Study of Voice - Acknowledgments - Guobin Yang: Voice and Listening for Communication Research: Lessons of Radicalism and Theoreticism from the 1960s - Elizabeth S. Parks and Kirsten Foot: Conceptualizing Listening as Voice and Its Affordances for Collaboration Scholarship - Gina G. Barker: Giving Victims a Voice: A Framework for Incorporating Crisis Intervention in Crisis Response - Petra Jansa: Marginalized Voices of Local Residents and the Symbolic and Material Appropriation of a Street - Elisabeth Eide and Heidi Røsok-Dahl: Strategically Shameless Voices? Young Women Speak for Themselves - Christine Larson: The Color of Romance: Gatekeeping in the Age of Digital Media - Joy Jenkins and Tim P. Vos: Journalistic Voice as a Gatekeeping Force - Maren Beaufort and Josef Seethaler: Legitimating Science in Times of Social Change: How Should Science Be Communicated to the Public? - Katherine R. Knobloch: Testing the Normative Assumptions of Deliberative Discussion - Lindsey Meeks: Voicing Voters' Concerns? Examining 2018 Mixed-Gender Senate Candidates' Issue Agendas - María E. Len-Ríos, Hyoyeun Jun and Earnest L. Perry, Jr.: Image Repair and Judging a Politician's Racially Insensitive Statements: Does Gender Matter? - Patricia Rossini: Toxic for Whom? Examining the Targets of Uncivil and Intolerant Discourse in Online Political Talk - Elihu Katz: His Master's Voice - Contributors.
About the author
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.
Summary
This edited volume arose from the 2018 International Communication Association conference in Prague. The contributions 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.
