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John Tinnell

John Tinnell is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Colorado, Denver. His new book is Actionable Media: Digital Communication Beyond the Desktop.

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Tweeting @ Thoreau

Walden is often championed as an anti-technology manifesto. But this misses the value Thoreau found in conversations spread across vast spans of time and distance.

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