Abstract:
This article explores the growing use of social networking among contemporary students and
researchers in education. It is argued that social networking systems exhibit many of the
characteristics of complex systems, such as self-organization and far-from-equilibrium conditions.
This article, therefore, contends that curriculum development in the near future will be deeply
impacted by social networks. Equally, curriculum scholars are in a unique position to integrate
chaos and complexity theories which help to recreate the ontological and epistemological
frameworks needed to respond to social networking phenomena.
