Acknowledgments and Credits

We would like to thank Texas Tech English Department Chair Bruce Clarke for providing support from the Brian Walker Memorial Endowment fund for us to purchase littleBits. This webtext's design was adapted from Sela, a free WordPress theme. Videos in this webtext used music from Other Things (2015), used under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license, and from Akashic Records (2013) and Alexey Anisimov (2016) using licenses purchased through Jamendo. We would also like to thank Andrea Beaudin, the teaching assistant for New Media Rhetoric in 2016, and Stephanie Vie and our anonymous reviewers from Kairos for their helpful feedback on an earlier draft of the webtext.

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