Renkai Ma

PhD student

Pennsylvania State University

Biography

I am currently a second-year Ph.D. student, majoring in Human-computer interaction (HCI), at Pennsylvania State University’s College of Information Sciences and Technology, where I am advised by Dr. Yubo Kou.

I am passionate about investigating questions regarding HCI, social media content moderation, and video content creator/influencer’s experiences under platform governance through mixed methodologies.

Recently, I work on projects of investigating how users, including (1) game players from online multiplayer games and (2) video content creators from social media platforms, interact with technologies and people, separately.

Recent News

Two first-authored papers are accepted by CSCW 2022

Papers' preprint files will come soon [1] 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 (CSCW' 2022)

Renkai Ma

Apr 1, 2022 1 min read

Projects

Mar 27, 2021

Online Community Moderation

A project I facilitate with the PI, Dr. Yubo Kou to understand how esports gamers experience punishments issued by moderation systems, how they reason about moderation mechanisms, and how they adjust their future behaviors.

Oct 20, 2020

YouTube Moderation

A project I lead to investigate how YouTubers, while performing profitable content creation on YouTube, experience algorithmic content moderation and handle various algorithmic impacts.

Featured Publications

“How advertiser-friendly is my video?”: YouTuber’s Socioeconomic Interactions with Algorithmic Content Moderation

We uncover and discuss the socioeconomic implication of algorithmic content moderation on YouTube.

Renkai Ma, Yubo Kou

Skills

Semi-structured Interview

100%

R

95%

Statistics

95%

Cognitive walkthrough and Task analysis

90%

Questionnaires

85%

Data Visualization

85%

Text mining

75%

Web scrapping

70%

Python

70%