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An analysis of the content and clinical implications of online advertisements for female genital cosmetic surgery

OBJECTIVES Women who are contemplating any form of female genital cosmetic surgery (FGCS) are likely to seek information from provider websites. The aim of this study is to examine the breadth, depth and quality of clinical information communicated to women on 10 popular sites and to discuss the implications of the results. METHODS The content of online advertisement from 10 private providers...

Detection of False Online Advertisements with DCNN

In addition to opinion spam, the overstated or unproven information in false advertisements could also mislead customers while making purchasing decisions. A false-advertisement judgement system aims at recognizing and explaining the illegal false advertisements. In this paper, we incorporate the convolutional neural network (CNN) with word embeddings and syntactic features in the system. The r...

Romanian Men's Masculinities in Online Personal Advertisements

The present paper analyses Romanian men's masculinities via a quantitative and qualitative analysis of 380 online personal advertisements posted by men. The case of Romania is particularly interesting for understanding gender relations, since the country has recently experienced the impact of (post-) communisim, democratization, and resurging traditionalism. Romanian men's advertisements often ...

Do females in advertisements reflect adolescents’ ideal female images?

FAdR: A System for Recognizing False Online Advertisements

More and more product information, including advertisements and user reviews, are presented to Internet users nowadays. Some of the information is false, misleading or overstated, which can cause seriousness and needs to be identified. Authorities, advertisers, website owners and consumers all have the needs to detect such statements. In this paper, we propose a False Advertisements Recognition...