Ashton Kingdon
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Centrality Concepts
Graph theory helps us understand the concept of centrality, which is a measure of the importance of different phenomena occurring within a social network. By incorporating centrality, we should be able to measure how influential or significant our application is within an overall network (Freeman, Borgatti & White, 1991). There are four main measures of …
Introduction to Graph Theory
The power of network theory lies in its high degree of abstraction, and, when exploring the impact of the web at scale, it is useful to assess this entity as more than a series of web pages that link together. In order to explore the relationships certain web pages, have with one another, we can …
Review of Existing Literature
A review of existing literature, focused on the relationship between the grieving process, technology, and social media, highlights that social media is becoming just as imperative a method for displaying grief as the funeral and the erection of the memorial, and should thus be given equal value (Huang, 2016; Lee, 2016; Melnick, 2017; Wilson, 2017; …
Welcome to the Story of Us
Hello, and welcome to “The Story of Us”, a bespoke social networking application designed to unite people in their grief. Society’s approach to grieving is not immune from the impact of technology, and digital culture has progressively influenced the ways in which people mourn and memorialise the death of a loved one. As a result …