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This symposium article investigates the COMUNIX—Active Participation of Young People in the Governance of Common Lands—community school. To do so, I analyze how the community school implemented pedagogical activities based on informal learning, which aims to stimulate young people to exchange communal and practical experiences. On the one hand, this article investigates, while thinking through bottom-up educational pedagogies, how underrepresented youth were challenged to absorb knowledge about common lands. On the other, using the lens of digital sociology it explores how COMUNIX WhatsAppers appropriated digital media to activate their participation through deliberation channels. The article is based on a digital ethnography of group interactions and conversations on WhatsApp chat and Facebook page, complemented by participant observation. It shows how digital media has come to constitute a key platform for deliberation during the community school.