I watched it, interesting video and accessible approach to the topic.
I couldn’t help but walk away from the video thinking about how many kids enter STEM/non-social science degrees at college and get to fully fledged adulthood before the realisation that social science is pretty fucking important and touches every aspect of our lives.
I probably have a chip on my shoulder because of how much everyone shits on social science as a low paid/dead end career but it’s upsetting an astrophysicists opinions about social science seems to be taken more seriously than an actual social scientist (this is more based on her previous video about gravity being a social construct but a lot of social science constructs are weaved into the Fermi paradox video as well).
I get where you are comming from but I wonder how much this is just about accesibility. If you have no connection to social science, you won’t click a video or read a book and even if, it might be jargon and hard to understand. If you are in STEM, you much rather watch a STEM content creator, even if they made videos about other topics. I see this more analgous to media analysis with a political lense. For example you like the Bee Movie and watch the Wisecrack video about it. It has capitalism in its name and maybe that’s a topic you are interested in but you wouldn’t search for a video about capitalism. But maybe I’m too generous.
mortemtyrannis@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
I watched it, interesting video and accessible approach to the topic.
I couldn’t help but walk away from the video thinking about how many kids enter STEM/non-social science degrees at college and get to fully fledged adulthood before the realisation that social science is pretty fucking important and touches every aspect of our lives.
I probably have a chip on my shoulder because of how much everyone shits on social science as a low paid/dead end career but it’s upsetting an astrophysicists opinions about social science seems to be taken more seriously than an actual social scientist (this is more based on her previous video about gravity being a social construct but a lot of social science constructs are weaved into the Fermi paradox video as well).
lugal@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
I get where you are comming from but I wonder how much this is just about accesibility. If you have no connection to social science, you won’t click a video or read a book and even if, it might be jargon and hard to understand. If you are in STEM, you much rather watch a STEM content creator, even if they made videos about other topics. I see this more analgous to media analysis with a political lense. For example you like the Bee Movie and watch the Wisecrack video about it. It has capitalism in its name and maybe that’s a topic you are interested in but you wouldn’t search for a video about capitalism. But maybe I’m too generous.