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Eaman received an Honours B.A. from 杏吧原创 University, an M.A. from the University of Toronto, and, with the support of a Canada Council doctoral fellowship, a Ph.D. from Queen\u2019s University, all in history \u2013 with the latter degree including a thesis on the intellectual history of morality as a force in history.<\/p>\n<p>Upon joining the faculty of the School of Journalism (later Journalism and Communication) at 杏吧原创, he undertook two major research major projects in conjunction with its new undergraduate program on mass communication: the writing of a specifically Canadian textbook on the mass media \u2013<em><a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.ca\/books\/about\/The_Media_Society.html?id=C0JiAAAAMAAJ&amp;redir_esc=y\">The Media Society: Basic Issues and Controversies<\/a><\/em> (Butterworths, 1987); and direction of a CBC Oral History Project sponsored by the National Archives of Canada, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and the School of Canadian Studies at 杏吧原创. With the further support of two SSHRC grants, the latter project conducted interviews across the country using graduate students in Canadian Studies as an archival resource for future research. It contributed to Ross\u2019s own publications on the CBC, beginning with <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.ca\/books\/about\/Channels_of_Influence.html?id=ecBIAAAAYAAJ&amp;redir_esc=y\"><em>Channels of Influence: CBC Audience Research and the Canadian Public<\/em><\/a> (University of Toronto Press, 1994) and continuing, more recently, with \u201c\u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/cjc.utpjournals.press\/doi\/full\/10.22230\/cjc.2015v40n3a2816\">The Story is Only the Platter on Which the Personality is Served\u2019: The Debate Over Media Integrity on CBC Radio\u2019s Literary Arts Programming, 1948-1985<\/a>,\u201d <em>Canadian Journal of Communication<\/em> 40, no. 3 (2015), 519-36. It also informed his original article on \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca\/en\/article\/canadian-broadcasting-corporation\">CBC\/Radio-Canada<\/a>\u201d for the Canadian Encyclopedia, which has recently been updated by Sasha Yusufali and Sharon J. Riley; entries such as \u201cBureau of Measurement\u201d and \u201cWayne and Shuster\u201d for the <em>Encyclopedia of Television<\/em>; evidence presented in person to the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage related to \u201csaving the CBC\u201d; and input as a member of the advisory committee for the Auditor General\u2019s Special Examination of the CBC, for which he developed a method of assessing the relative distinctiveness of CBC English TV programming.<\/p>\n<p>In the early 2000s, Ross was invited to write as sole author an encyclopedic guide to journalism from the <em>acta diurna<\/em> in ancient Rome to the present day. The result was the first edition of the <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.ca\/books\/about\/Historical_Dictionary_of_Journalism.html?id=KFvg2PFL0LAC\"><em>Historical Dictionary of Journalism<\/em><\/a> (Rowman and Littlefield, 2009) \u2013 No. 4 in the American publisher\u2019s Historical Dictionaries of Professions and Industries series. It has since been updated and substantially expanded with the help of colleague Randy Boswell as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.ca\/books\/edition\/Historical_Dictionary_of_Journalism\/yP4WEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=0\"><em>Historical Dictionary of Journalism<\/em><\/a> (rev. ed., 2021), 520 pp., available online for the 杏吧原创 community through the MacOdrum Library and featuring an introductory history of journalism as an evolving form of discourse.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to writing reviews such as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/utpjournals.press\/loi\/topia\">The Neo-University,<\/a>\u201d <em>Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies<\/em>, no. 28 (Fall 2012), 245-50, Ross has been a regular participant at the annual conference of the Canadian Communication Association, his presentations including \u201cMedia History and the Problem of Periodization\u201d (Montreal, 2010), \u201cEmerson, James, and Rorty on Communication and Moral Progress\u201d (Kitchener-Waterloo, 2012), \u201cMapping the Universe of Discursive Sites: A Burkean-Based Cartography\u201d (St. Catharines, 2014), \u201cHow Do Buildings Mean? 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Some of this research was combined with his teaching on discourse analysis and presented as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Rh461-Uwyns\">Five Speeches, Five Eras: Presidential Perspectives on Yellowstone<\/a>, a public talk at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming, on August 12, 2014 (<em>photograph above courtesy of Raymond Hillegas, Cody Enterprise<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>Designing \u201cwilderness\u201d in national parks is only one aspect of how built environments function as a medium of communication. In broadening his research and teaching to include built structures and spaces generally, it became evident to Ross that their meaning is communicated in a manner that is <em>sui generis<\/em> or unlike that of conventional media. 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