Aleksandra Urman

@AUrman21
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Postdoctoral researcher, Social Computing Group, University of Zurich. Political communication & computational social science

https://aleksandra-urman.ch/

The coolest Xmas card from @GESISTraining has arrived in the mail today. Thanks!
Excited to spend the next (almost) 2 weeks in beautiful Leuven as a junior fellow within the fellowship program on AI and reporting hosted by the Leuven Institute of Advanced Studies. Also look how cool my 18-century office building for the week is!
In summer advertising watchdog in the UK has banned offensive online ads offering to meet "lonely" Ukrainian women (from 1 company specifically) - see euronews https://tinyurl.com/ypu6br8b. Oct 2022, what ads do we see on Google (from the UK (VPN), incognito mode)? Can this stop?
Also yes, this horrible sexualization (not only about Ukrainian women and not only in ads on Google) is going on for years, we even have a paper on that by now https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448221099536 (am gonna present about it at #AoIR2022)
UK bans dating ads offering to meet 'lonely' Ukrainian women

Multiple dating ads promoting to meet 'lonely' Ukrainian women have been banned by a UK watchdog due to their offensive nature. #TheCube

euronews