While it pains me to say it, are the traditional media actually plugged into the life around them? Traditional media are connected to the power-brokers (City Hall, Westminster, the police etc) but are certainly more distant from everyday lives.
The media is connected to a system that has continually failed [Detroit].
In many countries, social media is an agent for self-empowerment and community organization -- with stakes much higher than the in the U.S. Whether in newly democratic nations transformed by the Arab Spring or in China, where the government's stranglehold on online censorship is slowly loosening, social media is connecting people and giving them agency.
Kaine expressed frustration over the fact that he learned details of Comey's letter from leaked media reports, including news items that were connected to Anthony Weiner.
But we have friends in common, and in the parlance of social media, we are connected.
'He is supposed to be Lord Coe - maybe he did not get the recognition he wanted from judo.' The barb was apt as Coe's more recent media appearances are connected not with old sporting glories but with his new judo partner, Conservative leader William Hague.
Developers running the preview build of OS 10.10, aka Yosemite, are seeing notifications that say their Apple TV is available for Continuity when both their Mac and the streaming media device are connected to the same Wi-Fi network.
In the era of social media, to be connected is to have hundreds of "followers," thousands of "friends," and to be a part of a large, online professional network.
In the bioreactor, media inlet was connected to the hypotube port and outlet was diverted to top of the reservoir using pressure tubing.
Another tube from the media-jar was connected to the exhaust tube to release the excess gas if any.
