Genom detta examensarbete har ett webbaserat system utvecklats för hantering av ämnesinriktade diskussioner i realtid. Systemets funktioner skapades med hjälp av PHP som ett serverspråk medan JavaScript användes som ett klientspråk. HTML och CSS användes för att skapa systemet grafiska gränssnitt. Samt att datalagring uppnåddes med hjälp av en MySQL-databas. Författaren använde sig av olika verktyg för att utveckla systemet. Sådana verktyg var Dreamweaver, Photoshop och WampServer. Det resulterande systemet gör det möjligt för användare att delta i direktsända ämnesinriktade diskussioner, samt att starta sin egna. Systemet tar också vara på servern igenom att använda smarta lösningar som undviker onödig server belastning. / Through this graduation work a web-based system has been developed to able management of subject-oriented discussions in real time.The system functions were created using PHP as a server-side language and JavaScript as a client-side language. HTML and CSS were used to make up the graphical part of the system. While data storage was achieved using a MySQL database.The author used various tools in developing this system. Such tools were Dreamweaver, Photoshop and WampServer.The resulting system enables its users to participate in subject-oriented real time discussions, or start their very own. The system also takes the server into account by using smart solutions that minimize server load.

The purpose of this study is to investigate how people act during and experience the feeling of participating in a digital funeral, in order to increase the understanding of how online rituals function. Through interviews with five people who have participated in digital funerals and based on ritual theory and Sara Ahmed’s phenomenological understanding of emotions, I investigate the following questions: How does it feel to participate in the elements of a digital funeral? How do funeral rituals function in a digital funeral? How can participants actively engage in a digital funeral?  The results of the study show that the experience of participating in a digital funeral does not correspond with the participants expectations and conceptions of what a funeral is. It also shows that the digital funeral and the physical funeral is the same ritual but communicated in two different ways which leads to two different experiences. This leads to the participants feeling disoriented and makes the funeral ritual, with the purpose for the participants to part from the deceased, to not fully have the wanted effect.