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1. 1 2021-05-31T10:43:04-07:00 Dene Grigar ae403ae38ea2a2cccdec0313e11579da14c92f28 Mark Bernstein & Erin Sweeney's "The Election of 1912" Dan Walker 24 Documentation for Mark Bernstein & Erin Sweeney's "The Election of 1912" plain 2021-07-12T14:34:18-07:00 Dan Walker 50a6402a7254203be2d0f43c4f0491ac5067dbdc

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• 1 media/bernstein-sweeney-election-social-media-ell-03_thumb.png 2021-06-15T11:54:50-07:00 bernstein-sweeney-election-social-media-twitter-ell-03 4 The Electronic Literature Lab on Twitter contextualizes “The Election of 1912” as a “rich work that includes images, sound, and text.” The Electronic Literature Lab draws similarities between the hypertext and the election conversation happening in 2020, “with the rise of a progressive platform to mitigate social ills and battles between partisan ideologies” media/bernstein-sweeney-election-social-media-ell-03.png plain 2021-06-16T10:13:45-07:00
• 1 media/bernstein-sweeney-election-social-media-ell-08_thumb.png 2021-06-15T11:56:27-07:00 bernstein-sweeney-election-social-media-twitter-ell-08 4 The Electronic Literature Lab on Twitter posts that “The Election of 1912” was not packaged with the conventional folio used for floppy disks by Eastgate Systems Inc. which had started with Michael Joyce’s “afternoon, a story.” The only Hypergate work that was packaged within a folio was Sarah Smith’s “King of Space” media/bernstein-sweeney-election-social-media-ell-08.png plain 2021-06-15T13:43:14-07:00
• 1 media/bernstein-sweeney-election-social-media-ell-05_thumb.png 2021-06-15T11:55:25-07:00 bernstein-sweeney-election-social-media-twitter-ell-05 2 The Electronic Literature Lab on Twitter explains that the loading screen of hypertexts created in the Storyspace authoring system tend to display the number of links and spaces within a given hypertext, which was one of the hallmarks of early Storyspace hypertexts. It is further explained that this convention stopped when Storyspace expanded to Windows and then disappeared when it was migrated to the CD-ROM format. This is labeled as the second post of two regarding this topic media/bernstein-sweeney-election-social-media-ell-05.png plain 2021-06-15T13:42:43-07:00
• 1 media/bernstein-sweeney-election-social-media-slocum-01_thumb.png 2021-06-15T11:58:41-07:00 bernstein-sweeney-election-social-media-twitter-slocum-01 2 Holly Slocum on Twitter posts that as a UX/UI designer, she is interested by the constraints that “The Election of 1912” was created in. And, as a concerned US citizen, she is also fascinated by “the political parallels between 1912 and 2020.” Slocum retweets a reminder for the Live stream Traversal posted by the Electronic Literature Lab media/bernstein-sweeney-election-social-media-slocum-01.png plain 2021-06-15T13:44:04-07:00
• 1 media/bernstein-sweeney-election-social-media-ell-06_thumb.png 2021-06-15T11:55:47-07:00 bernstein-sweeney-election-social-media-twitter-ell-06 2 The Electronic Literature Lab posts that due to the constraints of the software (Hypergate), there is no scroller available in “The Election of 1912.” This caused available screen space to be limited. Working around this constraint, Mark Bernstein offloaded information into menus, tabs, and buttons media/bernstein-sweeney-election-social-media-ell-06.png plain 2021-06-15T13:42:52-07:00
• 1 media/bernstein-sweeney-election-social-media-zoller-01_thumb.png 2021-06-15T11:58:59-07:00 bernstein-sweeney-election-social-media-twitter-zoller-01 2 Kathleen Zoller on Twitter compliments the bitmapped images within “The Election of 1912,” commenting that the ads within the hypertext offered an insightful window into the times media/bernstein-sweeney-election-social-media-zoller-01.png plain 2021-06-15T13:44:13-07:00
• 1 media/bernstein-sweeney-election-social-media-ell-07_thumb.png 2021-06-15T11:56:06-07:00 bernstein-sweeney-election-social-media-twitter-ell-07 2 The Electronic Literature Lab on Twitter posts that there are only three hypertextual works produced by Eastgate Systems, Inc. using the Hypergate authoring software: Mark Bernstein’s and Erin Sweeney’s “The Election of 1912” (1988), Robert DiChiara’s “A Sucker in Spades” (1988), and Sarah Smith’s “King of Space” (1991) media/bernstein-sweeney-election-social-media-ell-07.png plain 2021-06-15T13:43:04-07:00
• 1 media/bernstein-sweeney-election-social-media-ell-09_thumb.png 2021-06-15T13:06:56-07:00 bernstein-sweeney-election-social-media-twitter-ell-09 2 The Electronic Literature Lab highlights a feature within “The Election of 1912” titled “POLLS,” which offers three simulations: Electoral, Popular, and Close contests. The Electronic Literature Lab comments that this simulation allows readers to “change the course of history by managing the flow of information and activities relating to the election.” media/bernstein-sweeney-election-social-media-ell-09.png plain 2021-06-15T13:43:24-07:00
• 1 media/bernstein-sweeney-election-social-media-ell-01_thumb.png 2021-06-15T11:54:14-07:00 bernstein-sweeney-election-social-media-twitter-ell-01 2 The Electronic Literature Lab on Twitter posts that Erin Sweeney graduated from Williams College in 1982 with a major in English and Philosophy, and worked with Mark Bernstein to edit reviews of technical manuscripts. She is also credited for selecting a presidential election that lent itself to the hypertext “The Election of 1912.” It is also mentioned that she is involved with horseback riding, with an attached image of her on horseback media/bernstein-sweeney-election-social-media-ell-01.png plain 2021-06-15T13:41:19-07:00
• 1 media/bernstein-sweeney-election-social-media-ell-10_thumb.png 2021-06-15T13:07:19-07:00 bernstein-sweeney-election-social-media-twitter-ell-10 2 The Electronic Literature Lab on Twitter posts an invite to the live Q/A session of “The Election of 1912” with Mark Bernstein and Erin Sweeney on YouTube media/bernstein-sweeney-election-social-media-ell-10.png plain 2021-06-15T13:43:34-07:00
• 1 media/bernstein-sweeney-election-social-media-ell-02.png_thumb.png 2021-06-15T11:54:33-07:00 bernstein-sweeney-election-social-media-twitter-ell-02 2 The Electronic Literature Lab posts a reminder on Twitter regarding the Live stream Traversal of “The Election of 1912” read by Erin Sweeney media/bernstein-sweeney-election-social-media-ell-02.png.png plain 2021-06-15T13:41:43-07:00
• 1 media/bernstein-sweeney-election-social-media-ell-11_thumb.png 2021-06-15T11:57:44-07:00 bernstein-sweeney-election-social-media-twitter-ell-11 2 The Electronic Literature Lab on Twitter mentions that Bernstein and Sweeney took care to make “The Election of 1912” historically accurate, having compiled notebooks of handwritten notes. Such notes allowed users to explore various issues that occurred during the election of 1912 in great detail media/bernstein-sweeney-election-social-media-ell-11.png plain 2021-06-15T13:43:45-07:00
• 1 media/bernstein-sweeney-election-social-media-ell-04_thumb.png 2021-06-15T11:55:08-07:00 bernstein-sweeney-election-social-media-twitter-ell-04 2 The Electronic Literature Lab on Twitter posts that “The Election of 1912” was published by Eastgate Systems, Inc. in 1988 using Hypergate, a hypertext authoring system that Bernstein created. The Electronic Literature Lab mentions that unlike Storyspace, Hypergate has no loading screen and instead takes readers to the “cover.” This is labeled as one post of two regarding this topic media/bernstein-sweeney-election-social-media-ell-04.png plain 2021-06-15T13:42:25-07:00
• 1 media/bernstein-sweeney-election-social-media-ell-12_thumb.png 2021-06-15T11:58:22-07:00 bernstein-sweeney-election-social-media-twitter-ell-12 2 The Electronic Literature Lab on Twitter introduces Mark Bernstein as the founder and Chief Scientist of Eastgate Systems, Inc. who, after entering computer science, created a hypertext authoring system known as Hypergate for Macintosh systems. It is also mentioned that Bernstein is the primary developer for Storyspace on Windows and Tinderbox media/bernstein-sweeney-election-social-media-ell-12.png plain 2021-06-15T13:43:54-07:00
• 1 media/bernstein-sweeney-election-social-media-instagram-ell-01_thumb.png 2021-06-16T10:38:50-07:00 bernstein-sweeney-election-social-media-instagram-ell-01 1 The Electronic Literature Lab on Instagram posts an invite to the Live stream Traversal of Mark Bernstein’s and Erin Sweeney’s “The Election of 1912.” The work is contextualized as incorporating elements of digital essayism, hypertext gamification, and American political history media/bernstein-sweeney-election-social-media-instagram-ell-01.png plain 2021-06-16T10:38:50-07:00