CumuLinker, the Web ruler, demonstrates its Whisperer at a college reuniton for threat-caster protagonist.
Author: slger
Susan L. Gerhart (slger) is a retired computer scientist. Her professional specialities included software engineering research, technology transfer management, and computer science education, see SLGer's Research Autobiography.
Susan is active in a lifelong learning institute (OLLI) at Yavapai College in Prescott Arizona. She has facilitated courses on podcasts, Twitter, the Singularity, and climate fiction.
"As Your World Changes" blog describes her journey with vision loss into the spectacular world of assistive technology and the frustrating practices of accessibility. She writes with the NVDA screen reader, reads books from Bookshare on a BookSense, and listens to podcasts on an iPhone. slger123 on Twitter records her favorite articles and occasional comments on life and politics.
Creative writing courses led her to undertake "A Chip On Her Shoulder", a novel asking the questions: "how did we get into the privacy mess of modern social media?" and "Are we now just 'packets of data formerly known as people'?"
She's enduring the 2020 Pandemic era and autocracy challenge by analyzing changes in progress, promising, and unknown. Times sure are changing! Contact: slger123 at gmail.com
Notes Section 2:Threats Get Real
DellVille AZ experiences threat of vocal terrorism and real vandalism shutdown.
Notes Section 3: Another Chance
Protagonist resumes relationship withCanadian environmentalist and shares autobiographical blogging.
Notes Section 4: Nuclear Shadows
Notes on Los Alamos, wildfires, computing history, WWW decay, and other topics bond Team 3G
Notes Section 5: Complex Consequences
Inter-peronal analyses of professional, personal, and social media problems
Notes Section 6: Punk Page Podcast
Transcripts of a podcast on Internet history, disability, and rivalries hacking websites
Notes Section 7: Wicked Reasoning
Summary and notes for "Wicked Reasoning", Section 7
Appendix A: Disability Explainer A:
Appendix explaining social and medical disability concepts and terms
Appendix B: Controversy Search Engine
A form for better web search based around controversy
A Speculative, Autobiographical, Social Media Novella
Summary of the novella characters, events, journey, with historical vignettes.