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ABSTRACTWhen a young Danish-Tanzanian man was brutally murdered in Denmark, the Danish division of Black Lives Matter (BLM-DK) followed closely the journalistic coverage of the police investigation. BLM-DK posted 37 memes and commented links in the six months following the murder. Drawing on theories of critical memory, black publicity, and African American resistance that produces a genealogical counter-public this article explores the question of how BLM-DK’s textual and visual social media content concerning the murder addressed and helped mobilise a counter-public. In particular, the article investigates the convergent nature of the posts and the insistence on transnational political subjectivity. The article employs discursive analyses and produces detailed visual discursive readings of selected posts by BLM-DK.

AbstractThis article explores how acts of citizenship are negotiated across populist, political, and networked mediascapes. This is done through a discursive analysis of rights-claims originating in a YouTube video depicting a young boy, who is denied broccoli at a refugee detainment and repatriation centre in Denmark. Besides the video the data consists of digital views and comments, texts sourced from citizen media publications, social media sites, digitally born and mainstream media. We make a distinction between alternative/citizen media, digitally born and mainstream media to examine how different types of media play a role in discursively constructing populist logics. Our key findings show that alternative/citizen media forward political acts and rights-claims forthe people bythe people, whereas mainstream media generally invite elite sources to speak for the people. Finally, digitally born media encompass elements of both, thus questioning journalistic boundaries. The networked media thereby produce the discursive construction of “the rights of the people” as an empty signifier.