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Why is the face of these stories always someone who majored in something like "media arts"? Can the reporters not do better? Are they just mining their social

Why is the face of these stories always someone who majored in something like "media arts"? Can the reporters not do better? Are they just mining their social circle? Does making it intentionally representative of the kind of person who makes poor life choices to begin with generate extra hate-links?

ChuckFrank 11y ago
Says a person on a technology forum. Without the media arts people who do you think does your UI, and your UX, and all your graphic design work, and makes those snappy Apple commercials. Or works for all those ad companies that you love so much. If anything, he is part of your ecosystem.
- fiatmoney 11y ago
  The existence of people who do jobs like that does not imply that $50K sunk into an academic degree on a related subject is a good investment, unless Temple somehow has much better outcomes than other art / design related programs. Regardless of the payoff, the weird thing is that stories in this genre really disproportionately mention people with degrees in some art / design field, like MFA-in-puppetry guy. http://www.thenation.com/article/audacity-occupy-wall-street/ http://www.thenation.com/article/audacity-occupy-wall-street...
HarryHirsch 11y ago
That's right, they could just as easily have found a Java school or second-tier law school graduate. Or someone from the University of Phoenix.
- ChuckFrank 11y ago
  Yeah, but it was his fault that he or she is only second-tier. Right? It's always his or her fault, regardless. In which case, the solution is still the same one, don't let to the second-tie schools get loans, and force them to become more affordable, competing on price with first-tier programs, or if there are not enough students interested in low cost second tier programs, force them to shut down.
norea-armozel 11y ago
Actually, I've found that there's more MBAs and law students that have been pinched by the student loan bug (myself included as a compsci major). So I don't know why they focus on media-based degrees when there's other people with different majors they could compare against. I think I read somewhere last year was the first year where a certain percentage of graduating law students couldn't find any sort of work in their field (even just doing paralegal stuff). So, there's more interesting stories than those of the young reporter/journalist to be sure.

ChuckFrank 11y ago

Says a person on a technology forum. Without the media arts people who do you think does your UI, and your UX, and all your graphic design work, and makes those snappy Apple commercials. Or works for all those ad companies that you love so much. If anything, he is part of your ecosystem.

fiatmoney 11y ago
The existence of people who do jobs like that does not imply that $50K sunk into an academic degree on a related subject is a good investment, unless Temple somehow has much better outcomes than other art / design related programs. Regardless of the payoff, the weird thing is that stories in this genre really disproportionately mention people with degrees in some art / design field, like MFA-in-puppetry guy. http://www.thenation.com/article/audacity-occupy-wall-street/ http://www.thenation.com/article/audacity-occupy-wall-street...

HarryHirsch 11y ago

That's right, they could just as easily have found a Java school or second-tier law school graduate. Or someone from the University of Phoenix.

ChuckFrank 11y ago
Yeah, but it was his fault that he or she is only second-tier. Right? It's always his or her fault, regardless. In which case, the solution is still the same one, don't let to the second-tie schools get loans, and force them to become more affordable, competing on price with first-tier programs, or if there are not enough students interested in low cost second tier programs, force them to shut down.

norea-armozel 11y ago

Actually, I've found that there's more MBAs and law students that have been pinched by the student loan bug (myself included as a compsci major). So I don't know why they focus on media-based degrees when there's other people with different majors they could compare against. I think I read somewhere last year was the first year where a certain percentage of graduating law students couldn't find any sort of work in their field (even just doing paralegal stuff). So, there's more interesting stories than those of the young reporter/journalist to be sure.