{{Short description|Software for writing and reading hypertext}} {{Infobox software | name = Storyspace | logo = | screenshot = | caption = | collapsible = | author = Jay David Bolter<br>John B. Smith (UNC Computer Science professor)<br>Michael Joyce | developer = Eastgate Systems, Mark Bernstein <!--| status = Active --> | released = {{Start date and age|1987|10}} | latest release version = 3.2.0 for MacOS | latest release date = | latest preview version = | latest preview date = | operating system = Cross-platform | platform = | genre = | license = proprietary | website = {{URL|www.eastgate.com/storyspace/}} }} '''Storyspace''' is a software program for creating, editing, and reading hypertext fiction. It can also be used for writing and organizing fiction and non-fiction intended for print. Maintained and distributed by Eastgate Systems, the software is available both for Windows and Mac.
==History== Storyspace was the first software program specifically developed for creating, editing, and reading hypertext fiction.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Barnet |first=Belinda |date=2012-10-26 |title=Machine Enhanced (Re)minding: the Development of Storyspace |url=http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/6/2/000128/000128.html |journal=Digital Humanities Quarterly |volume=006 |issue=2 |issn=1938-4122}}</ref> It was created in the 1980s by Jay David Bolter, UNC Computer Science Professor John B. Smith, and Michael Joyce. Bolter and Joyce presented it to the first international meeting on Hypertext at Chapel Hill in October 1987.<ref>Bolter, J. David and Michael Joyce (1987). [http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=317426.317431&coll=ACM&dl=ACM&CFID=56348295&CFTOKEN=46943521 "Hypertext and Creative Writing"], ''Proceedings of ACM Hypertext 1987'', Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States, pages 41-50.</ref><ref>Hawisher, Gail E., Paul LeBlanc, Charles Moran, and Cynthia L. Selfe (1996). ''Computers and the Teaching of Writing in American Higher Education, 1979-1994: A History'' Ablex Publishing Corporation, Norwood NJ, p. 213</ref> After a failed attempt to license the software to Broderbund, they licensed it to Eastgate Systems in December 1990. Mark Bernstein, chief scientist at Eastgate, has maintained and developed the Storyspace program ever since.<ref name=":0" />
==Artistic and educational use== Several classics of hypertext literature were created using Storyspace, such as ''Afternoon, a story'' by Michael Joyce, ''Victory Garden'' by Stuart Moulthrop, ''Patchwork Girl'' by Shelley Jackson, and ''Figurski at Findhorn on Acid'' by Richard Holeton.
Storyspace has also been used extensively in secondary and tertiary education for teaching writing skills and critical thinking.<ref>{{cite journal | url=http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360131598000293 | doi=10.1016/S0360-1315(98)00029-3 | title=Elements and implications of a hypertext pedagogy | journal=Computers & Education | date=September 1998 | volume=31 | issue=2 | pages=185–193 | last1=Russell | first1=G. | url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3193962 | jstor=3193962 | title=Inventively Linking: Teaching and Learning with Computer Hypertext | last1=Taylor | first1=Pamela G. | last2=Carpenter | first2=B. Stephen | journal=Art Education | date=2002 | volume=55 | issue=4 | pages=6–12 | doi=10.2307/3193962 | url-access=subscription }}</ref> It has been used for teaching creative writing in particular,<ref>Murray, Janet H (1997). [https://books.google.com/books?id=Jb4AC5iWwXAC&dq=teaching+storyspace&pg=PA129 "The Pedagogy of Cyberfiction: Teaching a Course on Reading and Writing Interactive Narrative"], in Barrett, Edward and Marie Redmond (eds.) ''Contextual Media: Multimedia and Interpretation'', Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.</ref> and was especially popular in the early years of the web, when hypertext linking was less fluid and web pages had to be hand-coded in HTML. Proponents argue that Storyspace's visual maps of how hypertext nodes are connected allow students to focus on writing in hypertext rather than on technical issues, and that linking and/or visually juxtaposing ideas allows students to develop a visual logic.<ref>Tan, Kenneth Paul A.S.-S. (2002) [http://www.technologysource.org/article/storyspace/ "Storyspace: Using Hypertext in the Classroom"] ''The Technology Source'', July/August.</ref>
==See also== * Hypermedia
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==External links== * {{Official website|www.eastgate.com/storyspace/index.html}}
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