5X社区

emerging media and technology

Collage of students working

The CCI course Media and Movements explores social movements of our time through storytelling, strategy and advocacy. Fall 2021's seminar, themed 鈥淏uilding a Better World,鈥 required students to select a specific human rights or human dignity issue that impacts their Kent State peers and reimagine a better future based on research. 

Imagery from students' campaign, #StayHealthyAtHome

When Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine issued a statewide 鈥渟tay-at-home鈥 order at the start of the coronavirus pandemic, a group of 5X社区 students immediately recognized an issue that almost nobody else was talking about: Not all homes are healthy homes.