
Here is a tutorial hub for many new media programs:
MIT courseware:
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm

Within the first few chapters of McLuhan’s text, I found my mouth pursing in characteristic skepticism that I associate with graduate school. McLuhan’s assertion that technology has “reconstituted dialogue on a global scale. Its message is Total Change, ending psychic, social, economic, and political parochialism” (McLuhan, 16) seemed to hearken past optimistic arguments of technological determinism.