Nadine Levin
Biographic Data
| ID | 101160 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nadine Levin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nadine |
| FAMILY NAME | Levin |
| SIGNATURE | LEVIN N |
| AFFILIATIONS | UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8175-0465 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Democratization and Research: Can Ethnography Save Itself
With a strategic analysis of the push to "democratize" research-to open the research practice to non-researchers-this paper charts a path to shape the future value and practice of ethnography. While democratization debates often focus on concerns that it will take jobs away from trained researchers, I focus instead on what democratization looks like in practice and why it is appealing to organizations. I argue that democratization is a window int…
Government Forms as Friction: Identifying Opportunities for Innovation at the Intersection of Staff and Public Needs
This paper explores the friction inherent in forms as they flow between government institutions and people. Drawing on two case studies-a street vending permit form and a building permit form-we explore how forms are a nexus of different goals, needs, processes, and constraints for the delivery of government services. We show how reducing some types of friction through digitization creates other types of friction. Here friction is both destructiv…
The visual terms of state violence in Israel/Palestine: An interview with Rebecca L. Stein
This interview with media anthropologist, Rebecca L. Stein, conducted by Noa Levin and Andrew Fisher in Spring 2023, takes her recent book Screenshots: State Violence on Camera in Israel and Palestine (2021) as its starting point in order to explore issues of state violence and the militarization of social media in Israel/Palestine. This book marks the culmination of a decade-long research project into the camera dreams introduced by digital imag…
Theory of the Image, Thomas Nail (2019)
Review of: Theory of the Image , Thomas Nail (2019) New York: Oxford University, 432 pp., ISBN 978-0-19005-008-5, p/bk, £19.99
Ethnographic Agency in a Data Driven World
This paper argues that ethnographers can gain increased agency in data-driven corporate environments by increasing their quantitative literacy: their ability to create, understand, and strategically use quantitative data to shape organizations. Drawing on the author's experience conducting strategic user research at a technology company, the paper explores how the ability to engage with quantitative data can increase ethnographers' independence a…
Managing the transition to open access publishing: A psychological perspective
To manage the transition to the open access (OA) model of scholarly publishing, we need to understand better what enables, encourages and inhibits the adoption of OA publishing among scientists, and to appreciate individual differences within disciplines. The study adopts a psychological perspective to elucidate motivations, capabilities and opportunities for OA publishing among bioscientists in the UK. To identify differences within the discipli…
How Does One "Open" Science? Questions of Value in Biological Research
Open Science policies encourage researchers to disclose a wide range of outputs from their work, thus codifying openness as a specific set of research practices and guidelines that can be interpreted and applied consistently across disciplines and geographical settings. In this paper, we argue that this "one-size-fits-all" view of openness sidesteps key questions about the forms, implications, and goals of openness for research practice. We propo…
How Do Scientists Define Openness? Exploring the Relationship Between Open Science Policies and Research Practice
This article documents how biomedical researchers in the United Kingdom understand and enact the idea of “openness.” This is of particular interest to researchers and science policy worldwide in view of the recent adoption of pioneering policies on Open Science and Open Access by the U.K. government—policies whose impact on and implications for research practice are in need of urgent evaluation, so as to decide on their eventual implementation el…
Multivariate statistics and the enactment of metabolic complexity
This ethnographic study, based on fieldwork at the Computational and Systems Medicine laboratory at Imperial College London, shows how researchers in the field of metabolomics--the post-genomic study of the molecules and processes that make up metabolism--enact and coproduce complex views of biology with multivariate statistics. From this data-driven science, metabolism emerges as a multiple, informational and statistical object, which is both pr…
How Does One "Open" Science? Questions of Value in Biological Research
Open Science policies encourage researchers to disclose a wide range of outputs from their work, thus codifying openness as a specific set of research practices and guidelines that can be interpreted and applied consistently across disciplines and geographical settings. In this paper, we argue that this "one-size-fits-all" view of openness sidesteps key questions about the forms, implications, and goals of openness for research practice. We propo…
Multivariate statistics and the enactment of metabolic complexity
This ethnographic study, based on fieldwork at the Computational and Systems Medicine laboratory at Imperial College London, shows how researchers in the field of metabolomics--the post-genomic study of the molecules and processes that make up metabolism--enact and coproduce complex views of biology with multivariate statistics. From this data-driven science, metabolism emerges as a multiple, informational and statistical object, which is both pr…
Ethnographic Agency in a Data Driven World
This paper argues that ethnographers can gain increased agency in data-driven corporate environments by increasing their quantitative literacy: their ability to create, understand, and strategically use quantitative data to shape organizations. Drawing on the author's experience conducting strategic user research at a technology company, the paper explores how the ability to engage with quantitative data can increase ethnographers' independence a…
The visual terms of state violence in Israel/Palestine: An interview with Rebecca L. Stein
This interview with media anthropologist, Rebecca L. Stein, conducted by Noa Levin and Andrew Fisher in Spring 2023, takes her recent book Screenshots: State Violence on Camera in Israel and Palestine (2021) as its starting point in order to explore issues of state violence and the militarization of social media in Israel/Palestine. This book marks the culmination of a decade-long research project into the camera dreams introduced by digital imag…
Multivariate statistics and the enactment of metabolic complexity
This ethnographic study, based on fieldwork at the Computational and Systems Medicine laboratory at Imperial College London, shows how researchers in the field of metabolomics--the post-genomic study of the molecules and processes that make up metabolism--enact and coproduce complex views of biology with multivariate statistics. From this data-driven science, metabolism emerges as a multiple, informational and statistical object, which is both pr…
How Do Scientists Define Openness? Exploring the Relationship Between Open Science Policies and Research Practice
This article documents how biomedical researchers in the United Kingdom understand and enact the idea of “openness.” This is of particular interest to researchers and science policy worldwide in view of the recent adoption of pioneering policies on Open Science and Open Access by the U.K. government—policies whose impact on and implications for research practice are in need of urgent evaluation, so as to decide on their eventual implementation el…
Managing the transition to open access publishing: A psychological perspective
To manage the transition to the open access (OA) model of scholarly publishing, we need to understand better what enables, encourages and inhibits the adoption of OA publishing among scientists, and to appreciate individual differences within disciplines. The study adopts a psychological perspective to elucidate motivations, capabilities and opportunities for OA publishing among bioscientists in the UK. To identify differences within the discipli…
How Does One "Open" Science? Questions of Value in Biological Research
Open Science policies encourage researchers to disclose a wide range of outputs from their work, thus codifying openness as a specific set of research practices and guidelines that can be interpreted and applied consistently across disciplines and geographical settings. In this paper, we argue that this "one-size-fits-all" view of openness sidesteps key questions about the forms, implications, and goals of openness for research practice. We propo…
Ethnographic Agency in a Data Driven World
This paper argues that ethnographers can gain increased agency in data-driven corporate environments by increasing their quantitative literacy: their ability to create, understand, and strategically use quantitative data to shape organizations. Drawing on the author's experience conducting strategic user research at a technology company, the paper explores how the ability to engage with quantitative data can increase ethnographers' independence a…
Theory of the Image, Thomas Nail (2019)
Review of: Theory of the Image , Thomas Nail (2019) New York: Oxford University, 432 pp., ISBN 978-0-19005-008-5, p/bk, £19.99
Government Forms as Friction: Identifying Opportunities for Innovation at the Intersection of Staff and Public Needs
This paper explores the friction inherent in forms as they flow between government institutions and people. Drawing on two case studies-a street vending permit form and a building permit form-we explore how forms are a nexus of different goals, needs, processes, and constraints for the delivery of government services. We show how reducing some types of friction through digitization creates other types of friction. Here friction is both destructiv…
The visual terms of state violence in Israel/Palestine: An interview with Rebecca L. Stein
This interview with media anthropologist, Rebecca L. Stein, conducted by Noa Levin and Andrew Fisher in Spring 2023, takes her recent book Screenshots: State Violence on Camera in Israel and Palestine (2021) as its starting point in order to explore issues of state violence and the militarization of social media in Israel/Palestine. This book marks the culmination of a decade-long research project into the camera dreams introduced by digital imag…
Democratization and Research: Can Ethnography Save Itself
With a strategic analysis of the push to "democratize" research-to open the research practice to non-researchers-this paper charts a path to shape the future value and practice of ethnography. While democratization debates often focus on concerns that it will take jobs away from trained researchers, I focus instead on what democratization looks like in practice and why it is appealing to organizations. I argue that democratization is a window int…
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