Transforming campus culture through common rooms
This spring, we ran a JOMO digital well-being pilot in Virginia Tech’s West End dining hall with wonderful success.
In this large central common area, we hung large scale banner sets building awareness, inspiration and educating students on the JOMO (joy of missing out) ethos and why digital well-being matters.
More than 50% of survey respondents used the box with 37% using it multiple times.
Students liked the reminders “to be present,” “how [VT] is encouraging disconnecting to reconnect,” and thought the conversation cards paired with the phone boxes were “good way to get people engaged with each other.”
The JOMO common room intervention is helping build new student social norms by making it okay to not be on your phone.
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