# Democracy Was Not Designed for the Feed: Attention, platforms and public infrastructure

*Notebook · Open series · 4/5 · Public Mesh Editions · Domenico Di Siena*

How platforms turned participation into reaction, and which public, open and federated infrastructures could give us back civic space. A series on attention, friction and who owns Europe’s digital future.

## Details

- **Collection:** Metacívica
- **Format:** Notebook · PDF and small print run
- **Contents:** 4 pieces
- **Origin:** Series published in Public Mesh Journal
- **Publisher:** Public Mesh Editions, Valencia

## Contents

1. [Democracy Cannot Live in a Shopping Mall](https://publicmesh.substack.com/p/democracy-cannot-live-in-a-shopping)
2. [The Dopamine Cage of Digital Democracy](https://publicmesh.substack.com/p/the-dopamine-cage-of-digital-democracy)
3. [Public Mesh, Private Judgment](https://publicmesh.substack.com/p/public-mesh-private-judgment-reweaving)
4. [Why Europe Is Rethinking Who Owns Its Digital Future](https://publicmesh.substack.com/p/why-europe-is-rethinking-who-owns)

## Links

- [Read the series in the Journal](https://publicmesh.substack.com/p/democracy-cannot-live-in-a-shopping)

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Domenico Di Siena: Domenico Di Siena is a civic designer, architect and researcher. For more than twenty years he has worked with cities, European programmes and institutions on participation, public innovation and civic infrastructure.

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