Madelyn Rose Sanfilippo is an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the School of Information Sciences. Her research empirically explores governance of sociotechnical systems. Using mixed-methods, including computational social science approaches and institutional analysis, she addresses research questions about: participation in and legitimacy of sociotechnical governance; alignment between sociotechnical governance and public interest; privacy, misinformation, and social outcomes in sociotechnical systems; and differences between policies or regulations and sociotechnical practice. Her work practically supports decision-making in, management of, and participation in a diverse public sphere. She is an affiliate of the Ostrom Workshop at Indiana University, co-PI of the Workshop on Governing Knowledge Commons, and a series editor for Cambridge Studies on Governing Knowledge Commons.
Prior to joining the iSchool, Madelyn studied Environmental Studies, International Studies, Political Science, and Spanish at the University of Wisconsin, Madison (BS) and Information Science at Indiana University, Bloomington’s School of Informatics and Computing (MIS, PhD). She then held postdoctoral fellowships at the Information Law Institute at New York University’s School of Law and the Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) at Princeton University, with affiliations with AI Now and the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University.
She is currently an affiliate of the Ostrom Workshop at Indiana University and an Illinois Faculty Affiliate in Informatics, the Center for Global Studies, and the Center for Social and Behavioral Sciences. Madelyn directs the Governance Lab on Sociotechnical Systems (GLOSS).
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