Sentence examples for connectedness online from inspiring English sources
In an interview with the Smithsonian last Friday, one of the men behind the dystopian surveillance state show "Person Of Interest" -- who is intimately aware of the potential vulnerabilities of participating in the surveillance culture -- talked about the trade-offs between what he knows to be smart security and what is increasing the normal level of connectedness online.
The "personal" computer was now seen as a path to individualism; communal consciousness would arise from the new connectedness of online life.
This map, made using data from Peer 1's Map of the Internet, shows the relative connectedness of organisations online.
Results suggest that Facebook use may provide the opportunity to develop and maintain social connectedness in the online environment, and that Facebook connectedness is associated with lower depression and anxiety and greater satisfaction with life.
Almost a third of the global population is online and the connectedness of "things" — from hospital beds to domestic electricity meters — is growing even more rapidly.
Relatedness predicted two facets of online classroom communities, connectedness and learning, at the end of the semester.
Our virtual connectedness has created a generation that strives to be social, online and off.
After people went online for the first time, their sense of happiness and social connectedness dropped, over one to two years, as a function of how often they used the Internet.
Previous research has identified the importance of social connectedness in facilitating a number of positive outcomes, however, investigation of connectedness in online contexts is relatively novel.
Research shows that absence of learner interaction causes failure and eventual drop-out in online courses (Willging & Johnson, 2009) and the lack of learner connectedness was noted as an internal factor leading to learner drop-out in online courses (Zielinski, 2000).
He says that some recent studies have shown that use of social networking sites by teenagers is linked to positive well-being and greater social connectedness but adds that a willingness to seek the company of strangers whether online or offline is linked to poorer social well-being.
