Publications

Note: My name is in bold.

Total citations as of Dec. 2025 Google Scholar: 402 citations (h-index = 11; i10-index = 11)

Journal Articles

Renkai Ma, Dominique Geissler, Stefan Feuerriegel, Tobias Lauinger, Damon McCoy, and Pamela J. Wisniewski. (2026). Analyzing Social Media Claims regarding Youth Online Safety Features to Identify Problem Areas and Communication Gaps. In ACM CSCW ’2026. [link]

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

Lingyao Li, Xiaoshan Huang, Renkai Ma, Ben Zefeng Zhang, Haolun Wu, Fan Yang, and Chen Chen. (2025). LLM Use for Mental Health: Crowdsourcing Users’ Sentiment-based Perspectives and Values from Social Discussions. arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.07797.

Fan Yang, Lingyao Li, Yaxin Hu, Michael Rodgers, and Renkai Ma. (2025). Beyond the Uncanny Valley: A Mixed-Method Investigation of Anthropomorphism in Protective Responses to Robot Abuse. arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.26082.

Fan Yang, Renkai Ma, Yaxin Hu, Michael Rodgers, and Lingyao Li. (2025). I don’t Want You to Die: A Shared Responsibility Framework for Safeguarding Child-Robot Companionship. arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.26080.

Changjia Zhu, Junjie Xiong, Renkai Ma, Zhicong Lu, Yao Liu, and Lingyao Li. (2025). When Your Reviewer is an LLM: Biases, Divergence, and Prompt Injection Risks in Peer Review. arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.09912.

Lingyao Li, Renkai Ma, Zun Xue, and Junjie Xiong. (2025). Towards Trustworthy AI: Characterizing User-Reported Risks across LLMs “In the Wild”. arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.08912.