Focusing on the movements of the squares from 2011 onwards, this talk investigates the role of digital media in these movements’ understandings and practices of participatory democracy. The talk looks at how ideas around the commons found expression in the democratic practices of the movements of the squares and how such ideas are related with a model of democracy that we can call ‘project democracy’. The talk also critically investigates the power relations within such egalitarian democratic systems and the lessons that can be drawn for the future of alternative democratic practices.