Madelyn Rose Sanfilippo | Governance Lab on Sociotechnical Systems

2025 Graduates

Dr. Zak Kilhoffer successfully defended his dissertation, “HUMAN FACTORS IN THE STANDARDIZATION OF AI GOVERNANCE: IMPROVING THE DESIGN OF RISK MANAGEMENT STANDARDS FOR ETHICAL AI,” on January 24, 2025. His dissertation was awarded the 2025 Berner Nash Dissertation Award.

Dr. Kryie Zhou successfully defended his dissertation, “A PRAGMATIC AND HUMAN-CENTERED APPROACH TO PROMOTING SOFTWARE ACCESSIBILITY: DESIGN, EDUCATION, GOVERNANCE,” on April 3, 2025.

Dr. Smirity Kaushik successfully defended her dissertation, “DIGITAL TRUST, SAFETY, AND PRIVACY IN THE AGE OF EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES: EMPIRICAL AND POLICY INSIGHTS FROM GLOBAL SOCIAL MEDIA USE,” on June 16, 2025.

58th Annual HICSS

PI Madelyn Sanfilippo presented an Ignite Talk “Governing Misinformation from the Bottom-Up” and a full paper “Critically Comparing Global AI Regulations” at HICSS 2025.

6th Annual PrivaCI

Kyra Abrams, Smirity Kaushik, and Kyrie Zhou all presented at 6th Annual Symposium on Applications of Contextual Integrity (PrivaCI), September 27-28, 2024:

Contextual Dimensions of Data Autonomy – Kyra Abrams
Governing Manipulative and Synthetic Content on Video-based Social Media Platforms – Smirity Kaushik
Understanding People’s Contextual Choices of Differential Privacy – Kyrie Zhou

ASIST 2024

GLOSS was well represented at the 2024 ASIST Annual Meeting in Calgary, AB. Kyrie Zhou presented on the panel “Exploring Some Impacts of Advances in Artificial Intelligence: A Social Informatics Approach.”

ALISE 2024

Dr. Sang Hoo Oh presented “University Governance for Responsible AI” at the 2024 ALISE Annual Conference.

CEPE 2023: Governance Conflicts and Public Court Records

PhD Student Kyra Abrams presented Governance Conflicts and Public Court Records at CEPE 2023, hosted by Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago IL on May 16, 2023. The paper, presenting results from a larger GLOSS project on data governance in the public sector, analyzed public access to court records in California and Illinois, examining the complex, polycentric governance arrangements via regulation, bureaucratic implementation, technical design, social norms, and managerial decision-making. Results indicated that it is important that states rethink the status quo of access to public records, which are increasingly used as training data for algorithms in ways that amplify and introduce biases and potential for discrimination.

Situating “Governance Conflicts and Public Court Records” in the GLOSS research agenda on public sector data governance.

Governing Smart Cities as Knowledge Commons

GLOSS PI Madelyn Rose Sanfilippo has co-edited a new book, Governing Smart Cities as Knowledge Commons, with Brett M. Frischmann (Villanova University School of Law) and Michael J. Madison (University of Pittsburgh School of Law). The book examines how several cities handle ethical, economic, political, and social issues arising from the cities’ technologically advanced statuses. More details on this collaborative research with the Workshop on Governing Knowledge Commons and news about the book are available.

Dissertation Defense: Chang Liu

Chang Liu successfully defended his dissertation “SOCIOTECHNICAL MATCHING: FURNITURE MANUFACTURERS AT THE PERIPHERIES OF CHINESE ECONOMIC REFORM” June 6, 2022.

The committee members were:

Dr. Madelyn Sanfilippo (iSchool), Chair and Director of Research

Dr. Anita Chan (iSchool)

Dr. Michael Twidale (iSchool)

Dr. Yu Hong (Zhejiang University)

The newly minted Dr. Liu is interning with JP Morgan Chase this summer and will begin a postdoctoral fellowship, with support from IBM, at Notre Dame University in the Technology Ethics Center in Fall 2022.

New Publications in JASIS&T

PI Madelyn Sanfilippo collaborated with Yan Shvartzshnaider (York University) and Noah Apthorpe (Colgate University) on “GKC-CI: A unifying framework for contextual norms and information governance,” which was published by JASIS&T in March and covered on Information Matters in April 2022.

Her review of the book Algorithms and autonomy: The ethics of automated decision systems by Rubel, Castro, and Pham (2021) is also now available.

iConference 2022

Minseok Jung (BA, 2021) presented a poster entitled “Mapping Geographical Biases of AI Principles” at the 2022 iConference, on March 3.

Virtual poster presentation by Minseok Jung