Publications

Note: My name is in bold.

Total citations as of October 2025 Google Scholar: 351 citations (h-index = 11; i10-index = 11)

Journal Articles

Naima Samreen Ali, Renkai Ma, Zainab Agha, Jinkyung Katie Park, and Pamela J. Wisniewski. (2025). Teens as Co-Researchers: Advocating for Disruptive Change to Engage Youth Meaningfully in Online Safety Research and the Design of Social Media. In ACM CSCW ’2025. [doi]
Qiurong Song, Renkai Ma, Yubo Kou, and Xinning Gui. (2024). Collective Privacy Sensemaking on Social Media about Period and Fertility Tracking post Roe v. Wade. In ACM CSCW ’2024. [doi]
Renkai Ma, Yue You, Xinning Gui, and Yubo Kou. (2023). How Do Users Experience Moderation?: A Systematic Literature Review. In ACM CSCW ’2023. [doi]
Renkai Ma and Yubo Kou. (2023). “Defaulting to boilerplate answers, they didn’t engage in a genuine conversation”: Dimensions of Transparency Design in Creator Moderation. In ACM CSCW ’2023. [doi]
Renkai Ma and Yubo Kou. (2022). “I’m not sure what difference is between their content and mine, other than the person itself”: A Study of Fairness Perception of Content Moderation on YouTube. In ACM CSCW ’2022. [doi]
Renkai Ma, Xinning Gui, and Yubo Kou. (2022). Esports Governance: An Analysis of Rule Enforcement in League of Legends. In PACM on Human Computer Interaction, CSCW, 2022. [doi]
Renkai Ma and Yubo Kou. (2021). “How advertiser-friendly is my video?”: YouTuber’s Socioeconomic Interactions with Algorithmic Content Moderation. In ACM CSCW ’2021. [doi]

Conference Proceedings

Jinkyung Katie Park, Renkai Ma, Naima Samreen Ali, Naulsberry Jean Baptiste, Zainab Agha, and Pamela J. Wisniewski. (2025). Teens, Privacy, and Algorithms: Navigating and Co-Designing Solutions for Interpersonal Boundary Management on Social Media. In Interaction Design and Children (ACM IDC ’25). [doi]
Renkai Ma, Yao Li, Sunhye Bai, Yubo Kou, and Xinning Gui. (2025). Weighing Benefits and Harms: Parental Mediation on Social Video Platforms. In ACM CHI ’2025. [doi]
Renkai Ma, Zinan Zhang, Xinning Gui, and Yubo Kou. (2024). Labeling in the Dark: Exploring Content Creators’ and Consumers’ Experiences with Content Classification for Child Safety on YouTube. In ACM DIS ’2024. [doi]
Yubo Kou, Renkai Ma, Zinan Zhang, Yingfan Zhou, and Xinning Gui. (2024). Community Begins Where Moderation Ends: Peer Support and Its Implications for Community-Based Rehabilitation. In ACM CHI ’2024. [doi]
Renkai Ma, Yao Li, and Yubo Kou. (2023). Transparency, Fairness, and Coping: How Players Experience Moderation in Multiplayer Online Games. In ACM CHI ’2023. [doi]
Renkai Ma, Xinning Gui, and Yubo Kou. (2023). Multi-Platform Content Creation: The Configuration of Creator Ecology through Platform Prioritization, Content Synchronization, and Audience Management. In ACM CHI ’2023. [doi]

Yue You, Renkai Ma, Xinning Gui. (2022). User Experience of Symptom Checkers: A Systematic Review. In AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings. [link]

Other Publications (Workshop, Doctoral Consortium, etc.)

Renkai Ma. (2023). Conceptualizing and Improving Creator Moderation Design with Platform Stakeholders. In Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW Doctoral Consortium). [doi]
Renkai Ma. (2023). Conceptualizing and Rethinking the Design of Cross-platform Creator Moderation. In Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI Doctoral Consortium). [doi]
Renkai Ma and Yubo Kou. (2022). “I am not a YouTuber who can make whatever video I want. I have to keep appeasing algorithms”: Bureaucracy of Creator Moderation on YouTube. In Companion Publication of the 2022 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW ’22 Companion). [doi]
Yao Li, Yubo Kou, Renkai Ma, Yanlai Wu, Guo Freeman, and Bryan Semaan. (2023). Multi-Stakeholder Privacy and Safety on Content Creation Platforms. In Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS Companion ’23). [doi]

Preprints

C. Zhu, J. Xiong, R. Ma, Z. Lu, Y. Liu, and L. Li. (2025). When Your Reviewer is an LLM: Biases, Divergence, and Prompt Injection Risks in Peer Review. arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.09912.

L. Li, R. Ma, Z. Xue, and J. Xiong. (2025). Towards Trustworthy AI: Characterizing User-Reported Risks across LLMs “In the Wild”. arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.08912.