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We are thrilled to announce that two of our authors have been shortlisted for the 2013/2014 Donner Book Prize.
CONGRATULATIONS to Miranda Campbell, author of Out of the Basement, and Gregory Taylor, author of Shut Off.
From the Donner Prize website:
The prestigious Donner Prize, established in 1998, annually rewards excellence and innovation in public policy writing by Canadians. In bestowing this award, the Donner Canadian Foundation seeks to broaden policy debates, increase general awareness of the importance of policy decision making, and make an original and meaningful contribution to policy discourse. The 2013/2014 shortlist titles were chosen from a field of 80 submissions; the winner receives $50,000 while each nominated title will receive $7,500.
The winner of this year’s Donner Prize will be announced at an awards ceremony in Toronto on Wednesday, April 30th, 2014. The ceremony will be hosted by Don Newman, Chairman, Canada 2020. More info
FINALIST: Shut Off: The Canadian Digital Television Transition, by Gregory Taylor
A critical analysis of the most significant technological change in Canadian television history.
Digital technology has revolutionized modern television but what exactly has changed? The history of the digital transition is one of great scientific achievement, expensive failures, and significant political and industrial power struggles. In Shut Off: The Canadian Digital Television Transition, Gregory Taylor examines the technology, institutional players, and the policies that have shaped Canada’s efforts to switch from analogue to digital television broadcasting.
Watch Gregory Taylor interview on BNN’s The Close
FINALIST: Out of the Basement: Youth Cultural Production in Practice and in Policy, by Miranda Campbell
Mapping the changing realities of youth creative self-employment in the twenty-first century.
Out of the Basement profiles the variety of youth cultural production in the twenty-first century, and asks what has – or has not – changed as youth attempt to make a living from creative works. Moving between the structures directed toward creative life and the initiatives that young people produce themselves in the absence of relevant structures, Out of the Basement offers a timely analysis of the rise of small-scale creative employment.
Listen to Miranda Campbell interview on CBC Radio’s Cinq a Six
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