This one from Lada Adamic (which used to be on Coursera) is a good classic introduction to the subject, with video lectures: https://github.com/ladamalina/cours

This one from Lada Adamic (which used to be on Coursera) is a good classic introduction to the subject, with video lectures: https://github.com/ladamalina/coursera-sna https://github.com/ladamalina/coursera-sna It provides a friendly introduction to the topic, which would be good background before embarking on all the papers linked in the MIT syllabus.