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The article provides a pedagogical strategy that incorporates feminist geographic understandings of space, place, and time to advance feminist analytics of societal power. It describes an historically situated campus field trip at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill that focuses on the long-term struggle for women to gain access to the university. In doing so, it provides a template for other feminist teachers interested in an experiential approach to student learning that helps students understand the operation of systems of social control. The article argues for a critical pedagogy of place that examines familiar places on a campus in which students' lives are already situated, and it demonstrates how this approach helps students build on the knowledge they already hold to discover connections among space, knowledge, and power for themselves. The analytic lens of place, space, and time, coupled to specific historical and contemporary sociocultural conflicts, allows students to articulate their everyday life experiences to broader historical and contemporary structures of power, while at the same time developing a deeper appreciation of how spatialized power dynamics govern human bodies.

"Our encounters with websites, avatars, videos, mobile apps, discussion forums, GIFs, and nonhuman intelligent agents allow us to experience sensations of connectivity, interest, desire, and attachment -- as well as detachment, boredom, fear, and shame. Some affective online encounters may arouse complex, contradictory feelings that resist dualistic distinctions. In this book, leading scholars examine the fluctuating and altering dynamics of affect that give shape to online connections and disconnections. Doing so, they tie issues of circulation and connectivity to theorizations of networked affect. Their diverse investigations -- considering subjects that range from online sexual dynamics to the liveliness of computer code -- demonstrate the value of affect theories for Internet studies. The contributors investigate networked affect in terms of intensity, sensation, and value. They explore online intensities that range from Tumblr practices in LGBTQ communities to visceral reactions to animated avatars; examine the affective materiality of software in such platforms as steampunk culture and nonprofit altporn; and analyze the ascription of value to online activities including the GTD ("getting things done") movement and the accumulation of personal digital materials."

What did you do before Google? The rise of Google as the dominant Internet search provider reflects a generationally-inflected notion that everything that matters is now on the Web, and should, in the moral sense of the verb, be accessible through search. In this theoretically nuanced study of search technology's broader implications for knowledge production and social relations, the authors shed light on a culture of search in which our increasing reliance on search engines influences not only the way we navigate, classify, and evaluate Web content, but also how we think about ourselves and t