[neuromantik8086]

Wrt to algorithms / techniques used, you might want to check out this textbook by some of the Cornell folks:

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/kleinber/networks-book/

They also made an EdX course for it:

https://www.edx.org/course/networks-crowds-markets-cornellx-...

[randcraw]

Coursera offers about a half dozen courses in subjects seemingly related to CompSoc:

Social and Economic Networks: Models and Analysis, Stanford

Networks: Friends, Money, and Bytes, Princeton

Sampling People, Networks and Records, Michigan

Applied Social Network Analysis in Python, Michigan

Capstone: Analyzing (Social) Network Data, UCSD

Social Computing, UCSD

Measuring Causal Effect in the Social Sciences, U Copenhagen

Smart Cities, EPFL

Organizational Analysis, Stanford