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At the same time however , the ' public-sphericules ' or ' partial publics ' theses of Gitlin , as well as Becker and Wehner , purvey another kind of technological determinism , which moves from the grand historical grounding of social life on one or other over-arching technology , to differentiating forms of association in specialised ' spheres ' on the basis of more particular technological mediums as the context for particular civic sub-divisions . But its network properties are rarely realised in communication directly , rarely do they become meaningful qua network because , as Becker and Wehner point out ( see above ) , individuals only ever ' use ' the Internet within well-defined sub-mediums .