Uppsatsens syfte har varit att ur ett socialkonstruktivistiskt perspektiv, undersöka hur olika grupper framställs journalistiskt i nyhetsrapporteringen av mässlingsutbrottet i Göteborg under vintern 2017-2018. Undersökningen har genomförts med kritisk diskursanalys och resultaten har analyserats med postkolonial teori samt teorier om nyheter som kulturell gemenskap och nyhetslogik. I material framkom två huvudsakliga diskurser; folkhälsodiskursen och antivaccinationsdiskursen. Vid sidan av dem framkom en latent främlingsfientlig diskurs. Undersökningen visar att medial konstruktion av ”den andre” sker gällande två grupper i materialet; vaccinationsmotståndare och migranter. Det undersökta materialet är inte direkt främlingsfientligt men indikerar tydligt en främlingsfientlig diskurs. Undersökningen visar att det finns kvar postkoloniala idéer som tar sig uttryck genom konstruktion av migranten som ”den andre” i materialet. / The purpose of this paper has been to study the journalistic portrayal of different groups in the news coverage regarding the measles outburst in the winter of 2017/2018, from a social constructionist perspective. The study has been carried out using critical discourse analysis. The results have been analyzed using postcolonial theory and theories about news logic and news as cultural community. Two main discourses emerged in the material, the public health discourse and the anti-vaccination discourse. A latent xenophobic discourse also emerged in the material. The study shows medial construction of “the other”, regarding two groups; the vaccination-objector and the migrant. The study does not show that the material is explicit xenophobic. However, the material clearly indicates a xenophobic discourse. Therefor the study shows that there are still postcolonial ideas, that are manifested through construction of the migrant as “the other” in the material.

Abstract The purpose of this essay is to investigate how the popular male K-pop group BTS has influenced seven people, to motivate them to a better mental health and new life path in Sweden. The study examines purple dreams that represents mine and six other individuals’ stories that has found similar motivation from Korean popular culture. The method used in this study are autoethnography, my own prior memories and qualitative methods in the form of three interviews and three written stories. The theoretical perspective in the study consists of Blumer's interactionism, which provides a closer insight into how a fandom as a whole community acts and reacts in its inner workings. The results show that the informants experience an improvement in their mental state through this community. It also showed that communication between fans has helped improve mood, providing fans with a community to help fulfill some goals on the road to their dreams. It emerged in the interviews and stories that fans, and idols play a significant role in the BTS community. The community's experience show that culture and interaction are important to people's lifestyles and have contributed to better mental health.