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Book SynopsisAntisemitism on Social Media is a book for all who want to understand this phenomenon.Researchers interested in the matter will find innovative methodologies (CrowdTangle or Voyant Tools mixed with discourse analysis) and new concepts (tertiary antisemitism, antisemitic escalation) that should become standard in research on antisemitism on social media. It is also an invitation to students and up-and-coming and established scholars to study this phenomenon further. This interdisciplinary volume addresses how social media with its technology and business model has revolutionized the dissemination of antisemitism and how this impacts not only victims of antisemitic hate speech but also society at large. The book gives insight into case studies on different platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, and Telegram. It also demonstrates how social media is weaponized through the dissemination of antisemitic content by political actors from tTrade Review"This book is an essential guide to a modern disgrace that threatens everyone, not just Jews. Just when we are congratulating ourselves about supposedly sophisticated ideas or technologies, what often happens is that brutish, forceful impulses get a path cleared. Antisemitism was the ancient, enduring proving ground for ridiculous, deadly paranoias in European cultures; now the old methods have become profitable accelerants for hate on social media."Jaron Lanier, Computer Scientist and Author, USA"Antisemitism on Social Media is a timely and urgently needed investigation into today's manifestations of antisemitism. The book shows vividly how social media has become a disturbingly powerful engine of antisemitic hatred and conspiracy theories. A must-read for everyone who wants to understand the dangers of modern-day antisemitism."Julia Ebner, Bestselling Author of Going Dark. The Secret Social Lives of Extremists, and Senior Research Fellow and Counterterrorism Advisor, Institute for Strategic Dialogue, UK"Social media is absolutely central to the way that contemporary antisemitism is generated, disseminated, and operationalised around the world, and this volume is a valuable and enlightening contribution to our understanding of how and why this happens. Importantly, the breadth of chapters recognise the variety in how antisemitism manifests online, including antisemitism in mainstream politics and society, online networks of violent anti-Jewish extremists, and the intersection of antisemitism with broader conspiracist movements that threaten democracy."Dave Rich, Director of Policy, Community Security Trust, UK"This timely, disturbing and all-too-necessary book shows from a global perspective how antisemitism has taken hold within contemporary social media. The authors document the antisemitism of conspiracy theorists, white nationalists, neo-Nazis, and Islamists; discuss the implications of omnipresent hate speech; and propose counter measures. Their scholarship illuminates the internet’s darkest corners and exposes the vulnerable underside of the digital revolution."Jonathan D. Sarna, University Professor and Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History; Director, Schusterman Center for Israel Studies, Brandeis University, USA"The internet offers unprecedented ways of spreading antisemitic hate speech and conspiracy myths. Too often have we witnessed that illegal or otherwise harmful content online can lead to hate crime in the real world. Understanding the sources, as well as the instruments and ways this dangerous content travels and is amplified, is essential for platforms, policy makers, law enforcement agencies and users. With its thorough analysis, Antisemitism on Social Media offers innovative ideas to all those engaged in counter-actions to address online antisemitism."Katharina von Schnurbein, European Commission Coordinator on Combating Antisemitism and Fostering Jewish Life"Antisemitism on Social Media has the ability to slice through much of the political fog around the subject of antisemitism, letting the data reach a wider audience of scholars and policy makers, and takes an approach that lets neither right-wing or left-wing orthodoxies dictate exclusively how the data will be interpreted… it is an intervention into a field that desperately needs dependable numbers, and rarely do we see a volume that tries to bring together as many relevant studies with such up-to-date research in a singular work. In that way, Monika Hübscher and Sabine von Mering have produced something incredibly special [that] is guaranteed to be on every researcher’s Works Cited for years to come."Shane Burley, Maiseh Review, May 2022, https://maiseh-review.ghost.io/how-to-understand-the-research-on-antisemitism-on-social-media/Table of ContentsForeword Introduction 1. A Snapshot of Antisemitism on Social Media in 2021 2. Deep State, Child Sacrifices, and the ‘Plandemic’: The Historical Background of Antisemitic Tropes within the QAnon Movement 3. Tertiary Antisemitism in Social Media Posts of Germany's Alternative für Deutschland 4. "Everyone I know Isn’t Antisemitic": Antisemitism in Facebook Pages Supportive of the UK Labour Party 5. Attacks on Democracy? A Troll-Attack on YouTube 6. Social Media and System Collapse: How Extremists Built an International Neo-Nazi Network 7. Antisemitic Rhetoric in Urdu on YouTube: An Analysis 8. Antisemitic Narratives on YouTube and Telegram as Part of Conspiracy Beliefs about COVID-19 9. Reconstructing an Antisemitic Meme on Social Media through Objective Hermeneutics 10. New Antisemitism on TikTok 11. The Impact of Antisemitic Content and Hate Speech on Social Media on Young Jewish Social Media Users 12. Toward an AI Definition of Antisemitism? 13. "To Report or Not to Report": Antisemitism on Social Media and the Role of Civil Society 14. Antisemitism on Social Media Platforms: Placing the Problem into Perspective

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Book SynopsisNATIONAL BESTSELLER Shortlisted for the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award“The best window I’ve seen into this new world.” —David Brooks, The New York Times   In this indispensable guide to navigating the twenty-first century, two visionary thinkers reveal how “new power” is reshaping politics, business, and life to be more open, participatory, and peer-driven. Here, Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms reveal a new and compelling lens on the biggest stories of our age—from the out-of-nowhere victory of Donald Trump to the rise of mega-platforms like Facebook. They show the strength of new power—movements like #MeToo; platforms like Airbnb and Lyft; organizations like TED and Lego—as well as its dark side. They contrast it to “old power,” the foundations of which are coming under assault in an age of ubiquitous participation.

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Book SynopsisThe impact of digital technologies on music has been overwhelming: since the commercialisation of these technologies in the early 1980s, both the practice of music and thinking about it have changed almost beyond all recognition. From the rise of digital music making to digital dissemination, these changes have attracted considerable academic attention across disciplines,within, but also beyond, established areas of academic musical research. Through chapters by scholars at the forefront of research and shorter ''personal takes'' from knowledgeable practitioners in the field, this Companion brings the relationship between digital technology and musical culture alive by considering both theory and practice. It provides a comprehensive and balanced introduction to the place of music within digital culture as a whole, with recurring themes and topics that include music and the Internet, social networking and participatory culture, music recommendation systems, virtuality, posthumanism, suTable of ContentsIntroduction Nicholas Cook, Monique M. Ingalls and David Trippett; 1. Digital technology and cultural practice Nicholas Cook; Personal take 1: whatever happened to tape trading? Lee Marshall; 2. Towards a digital history of music: new technologies, business practices, and intellectual property regimes Martin Scherzinger; Personal take 2: on serving as an expert witness in the 'blurred lines' case Ingrid Monson; 3. Shaping the stream: techniques and troubles of algorithmic recommendation K. E. Goldschmitt and Nick Seaver; Personal take 3: being a curator Ben Sinclair; Personal take 4: can machines have taste? Stéphan-Eloïse Gras; 4. Technologies of the musical selfie Sumanth S. Gopinath and Jason Stanyek; Personal take 5: vaporwave is dead, long live vaporwave! Adam Harper; 5. Witnessing race in the new digital cinema Peter McMurray; Personal take 6: giving history a voice Mariana Lopez; 6. Musical media in online devotion Monique M. Ingalls; Personal take 7: technicians of ecstasy Graham St John; Personal take 8: live coded mashup with the humming wires Alan Blackwell and Sam Aaron; Personal take 9: algorave: dancing to algorithms Alex McLean; 7. Rethinking liveness in a digital age Paul Sanden; Personal take 10: augmenting musical performance Andrew McPherson; Personal take 11: digital demons, real and imagined Steve Savage; Personal take 12: composing with sounds as images Julio d'Escriván; Personal take 13: compositional approaches to film, TV and video games Stephen Baysted; 8. Virtual words from recording to video games Isabella van Elferen; 9. Posthumanism and the generation of empathy David Trippett; Personal take 14: in the wake of the virtual Frances Dyson; 10. Digital inequalities and global sounds Shzr Ee Tan; 11. The political economy of streaming Martin Scherzinger.

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Book SynopsisJohn Parham is Principal Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Worcester, UK and Associate Head (Research) in the Institute of Humanities and Creative Arts. He is co-editor of the journal Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism and his research focuses on the connections between popular culture, literature and ecology.Trade ReviewThe book thus offers a corrective to certain outdated tendencies of ecocriticism and environmental activism, especially the idealisation of ‘pure’ nature … Green Media and Popular Culture is a valuable resource for anyone interested in the recent past or possible futures of ecocriticism and the environmental humanities. * Nicole Seymour, Green Letters. Vol. 20 (3), 2016 *Table of ContentsForeword 1. Embracing Contradiction: Green Popular Culture PART I: CONTRADICTION 2. Global and Eco-Cosmopolitan Film: 'Muddled Middles' 3. Green Television: Telling Tales 4. Green Journalism and Green Cultures PART II: ELASTICITY5. Green Comedy: The Importance of Being Elastic 6. Popular Music: Reconnecting with the Environment 7. 'Eco-Cinema': Art Film and Documentary 8. Green Computer Games: To Play is to Inhabit 9. The 'Hope' of Green Animation Afterword.

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Book SynopsisThis book shows just how closely late nineteenth-century American women's ghost stories engaged with objects such as photographs, mourning paraphernalia, wallpaper and humble domestic furniture. Featuring uncanny tales from the big city to the small town and the empty prairie, it offers a new perspective on an old genre. Trade Review“Downey’s readings would be valuable for any instructor or student studying the ghost story, American gothic, or gender in the Gilded Age. Her clear discussions of literary and historical context make the book accessible and engaging for advanced and undergraduate scholars alike, and her productive use of repetition and a reflective format make it useful as a whole or in teachable excerpts.” (Laura R. Kremmel, Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies, Issue 15, 2016)With references from Poe to Marx to Derrida, this volume is an intriguing and often fascinating mixture of historical and socio-cultural analysis and literary criticism. Rich in ideas that frequently overlap, contradict or complement each other - often exposing the slippery nature of notions themselves - Dara Downey's work eschews the usual psychoanalytical readings of ghost story motifs and offers fresh perspectives. Not just for academics, this book will prove useful to readers wishing to explore the causes and contexts of American ghost stories of the Gilded Age. - The Green Book, (2015) JV 'A compelling volume that powerfully challenges the Western canon of Memory Studies to define a new age of cultural memory in the East.' - Andrew HoskinsTable of Contents

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Book SynopsisAuthenticity in our globalized world is a paradox. This collection examines how authenticity relates to cultural products, looking closely at how a particular "ethnic" food, or genre of popular music, or indigenous religious belief attains its aura of originality, when all traditional cultural products are invented in a certain time and place.Trade Review'The idea of authenticity is an important one to explore in an academic setting and The Paradox of Authenticity in a Globalized World will be a useful tool in cultural and media studies, anthropology, and food studies. What really sets this edited volume apart is the inclusion of scholars who are not in academia - this adds a nice, contextualized angle in the fields of music, law, information studies, and museums.' - Jessica Mudry, Ryerson University, CanadaTable of Contents1. Introduction: The Artifice of Authenticity in the Age of Digital Reproduction; Russell Cobb PART I: A MATTER OF TASTE: AUTHENTICITY AND INNOVATION IN FOOD CULTURE 2. Searching for Authenticity: Cajun Food and a 'Golden Age" of Cajun History; Michael S. Martin 3. Food Bureaucracy: Pizza Authentication by the European Union; Rossella Ceccarini 4. Currying Flavour: Authenticity, Cultural Capital, and the Rise of Indian Food in the United Kingdom; Stephen A. Fielding PART II: PERFORMING THE REAL: MEDIATING AUTHENTICITY IN MUSIC, TELEVISION, AND PUBLISHING 5. Performing Cultural Authenticity in CBS's Good Times ; Nicola Mann 6. Buying into the Monastic Experience: Are Chant Recordings the Real Thing?; Amanda Haste 7. The Discourse of Authenticity in Yoga Journal ; Laura Christine Graham PART III: STEROTYPES, CLICHÉS, AND THE REAL THING: AUTHENTICITY IN CULTURAL CONTACT ZONES 8. From the Chrysanthemum Throne to the Porcelain Throne: Anglo-American Tourists and the Japanese Toilet; Gavin James Campbell 9. Tourists as Primitives? Inverting the Tourist Gaze in The Lost Steps by Alejo Carpentier; Jeannine M. Pitas 10. The Database as a Distressed Genre; John Venecek PART IV: CUT, PASTE, AUTHENTICATE: LITERARY STUDIES AND THE QUESTION OF AUTHENTICITY 11. 'There Is No Such Thing as Originality Anyway. . . ': Authorship in the Age of Digital Reproduction; Kaja Marczewska 12. Like in the Gringo Movies: Parodic Translation in Roberto Bolaño's 2666 ; Juan Meneses 13. Norman Mailer, Hipsters, and the Authenticity of the White Negro; Katharine Bausch 14. Authenticity as Currency in the Contemporary American Memoir; Katherine Edwards PART V: REAL POLITICS: THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF AUTHENTICITY 15. Beyond the Infinite Loop? Subjectivity in the Age of the Copy; James Block 16. Real Feminists and Fake Feminists: The Charge of Inauthenticity in Responses to Judith Butler; Kathryn Telling 17. Authenticity, Existentialism, and the American Exception of Rule 23; Michael Lopez 18. That Old School Lonsdale: Authenticity and Clothes in Streetpunk and Skinhead Culture; Aimar Ventsel

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Book SynopsisSue Turnbull is Senior Professor of Communication and Media at the University of Wollongong, Australia, and Discipline Leader for the Creative Industries. Her recent publications include European Television Crime Drama and Beyond, co-edited with Kim Toft Hanson and Steven Peacock (Palgrave Macmillan 2018), The TV Crime Drama (Edinburgh University Press 2014) and Media and Communications in Australia (Allen and Unwin 2014) with Stuart Cunningham. With Martin Barker, Sue is joint editor of Participations, Journal of Media and Reception Studies while her current projects include a collaborative investigation into the value of web series to the screen industries, audiences and the creative economy.Trade ReviewA wonderfully distinctive addition to audience studies. Taking a critical approach, Turnbull presents a historically situated account of both classic audience research and user engagement with contemporary media forms. * Eve Ng, Ohio University, USA *This book provides an important discussion of the key developments in thinking about media audiences, demonstrating the multiple different ways that scholars have thought about audiences and their relationship with media. * Emily Harmer, University of Liverpool, UK *Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introductions Chapter 2: What is a Media Audience? Chapter 3: Technologies of Audiencing Chapter 4: Content and Interpretation Chapter 5: The People Who Matter Chapter 6: The Madness in Our Method.

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Book SynopsisThe first book-long analysis of the 'mediatization of politics', this volume aims to understand the transformations of the relationship between media and politics in recent decades, and explores how growing media autonomy, journalistic framing, media populism and new media technologies affect democratic processes.Trade Review'This book brings together some of the leading scholars in contemporary political communication to explore the mediatization of politics. Written in a highly accessible way it provides the reader with a critical insight into this increasingly important concept showcasing the latest theoretical reflections and empirical evidence. I have no doubt that this edited collection will become required reading for all those interested in understanding the mediatization process.' - James Stanyer, University of Loughborough, UKTable of ContentsPART I: INTRODUCTION 1. Mediatization of Politics: Towards a Theoretical Framework; Jesper Strömbäck and Frank Esser PART II: FOUNDATIONS 2. Mediatization and Democracy; Jay G. Blumler 3. Mediatization and Political Populism; Gianpietro Mazzoleni 4. Mediatization and New Media; Winfried Schulz 5. Mediatization and Political Autonomy: A Systems Approach; Frank Marcinkowski and Adrian Steiner Part III: DIMENSIONS OF MEDIATIZATION 6. Mediation of Political Realities: Media as Crucial Source of Information; Adam Shehata and Jesper Strömbäck 7. Mediatization at the Structural Level: Independence from Politics, Dependence on the Market; Linards Udris and Jens Lucht 8. Mediatization of News: The Role of Journalistic Framing; Claes H. de Vreese 9. Mediatization of Campaign Coverage: Metacoverage of U.S. Elections; Paul D'Angelo, Florin Büchel and Frank Esser 10. Mediatization of Political Organizations: Changing Parties and Interest Groups?; Patrick Donges and Otfried Jarren 11. Mediatization and Political Agenda Setting: Changing Issue Priorities?; Peter Van Aelst, Gunnar Thesen, Stefaan Walgrave and Rens Vliegenthart PART IV: CONCLUSION 12. A Paradigm in the Making: Lessons for the Future of Mediatization Research; Frank Esser and Jesper Strömbäck

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Book SynopsisThis is the first book that looks into the state and role of investigate journalism in the Arab world. It explores the vital role the media could potentially play in informing and empowering society, to assist in opening up the communicative space in a region where this has previously been taboo.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Rise of Investigative Journalism Globally and in the Arab World 2. Investigative Journalism Training 3. Investigative Journalism Practice 4. Regulatory Frameworks and Freedom of Information 5. Issues and Challenges 6. The Way Forward

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Book SynopsisIn recent years, there has been something of an explosion in the performance of live music to silent films. This book is the first of its kind in that it aims to bring together writings and interviews to delineate the culture of providing music for silent films.Table of ContentsList of FiguresNotes on Contributors1. Music and the Resurfacing of Silent Film: A General Introduction; Ann-Kristin Wallengren and K.J.Donnelly2. How Far Can Too Far Go?: Radical Approaches to Silent Film Music; K.J.DonnellyPART I: ARCHIVES AND HISTORICAL PRACTICES3. Between Practice and Theory: Silent Film Sound and the Music Archive; Carolin Beinroth4. Gottfried Huppertz's Metropolis: The Acme of 'Cinema Music'; Emilio Audissino5. The Music of The Circus; Gillian B.Anderson6. Cowboys, Beggars and the Deep Ellum Blues: Playing Authentic to Silent Films; Michael HammondPART II: NOVEL MUSIC AND NEW ISSUES7. Bringing a Little Munich Disco to Babelsberg: Giorgio Moroder's Score for Metropolis; Jeff Smith8. Soviet Fidelity and the Pet Shop Boys; Beth Carroll9. Multiple Soundtrack Versions on DVD: Scoring Modern City Life and Pastoral Countryside; Christopher NatzénPART III: CURRENT PRACTICES AND NEW TRADITIONS10. Edit's Hand. Music to The Phantom Carriage; Matti Bye11. Scoring Ruttman's Berlin: Musical Meaning in Historical and Critical Contexts; Matt Malsky12. Silent Film, Live Music and Contemporary Composition; Ed Hughes13. To be in Dialogue with the Film: With Neil Brand and Lillian Henley at the Masterclasses at Pordenone Silent Film Festival; Ann-Kristin Wallengren

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Book SynopsisThis first full-length scholarly study about animal horror cinema defines the popular subgenre and describes its origin and history in the West. The chapters explore a variety of animal horror films from a number of different perspectives. This is an indispensable study for students and scholars of cinema, horror and animal studies.Trade Review'From apes and alligators to arachnids and amphibians, this collection brilliantly maps movies that include animal as sources of fear. It is an original, ambitious and timely contribution to film studies, cultural studies, horror studies and animal studies.' - Justin D. Edwards, University of Surrey, UKTable of ContentsList of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements 1. Introduction; Katarina Gregersdotter, Nicklas Hallen and Johan Hoglund 2. A History of Animal Horror Cinema; Katarina Gregersdotter, Nicklas Hallen and Johan Hoglund 3. 'They are a fact of life out here': The Ecocritical Subtexts of Three Early-Twenty-First-Century Aussie Animal Horror Movies; Michael Fuchs. 4. Polluting and Perverting Nature: The Vengeful Animals of Frogs; Jennifer Schell. 5. Consuming Wildlife: Representations of Tourism and Retribution in Australian Animal Horror; Maja Milatovic 6. Oil and the (Geo)Politics of Blood: Towards an Eco-Gothic Critique of Nightwing; John Edgar Browning. 7. America, Down the Toilet: Urban Legends, American Society and Alligator; Craig Ian Mann 8. Re-Education as Exorcism: How a White Dog Challenges the Strategies for Dealing with Racism; Susan Schwertfeger. 9. We Spiders: Spider as the Monster of Modernity in the Big Bug and Nature-on-a-Rampage Film Genres; Niklas Salmose. 10. Concubines and Chameleons, Deconstruction and Consumption in Pu Songling's and Gordon Chan's Painted Skin; Myha Do 11. Frozen, The Grey, and the Possibilities of Posthumanist Horror; Dawn Keetley 12. Anthropomorphism and the Representation of Animals as Adversaries; Katarina Gregersdotter and Nicklas Hallen 13. Simian Horror in Rise and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes; Johan Hoglund Index

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Book SynopsisThe arts are situated at the centre of policies and programs seeking to make communities more creative, cohesive or productive. This book highlights the governmental, aesthetic and economic contexts which shape art in community, offering a constructive account of the ties between government, culture and the citizen.Trade Review"Art in Community provides an astute analysis of art, community and government in a world shaped by neo-liberal policies and increasing cultural diversity. Resisting the celebratory tone of creative industries discourse and community arts practice, the book is alive to the contradictions of contemporary art-making. Khan lucidly argues that provisionality is symptomatic of the evolving relations between culture, politics and subjectivity." - Greg Noble, University of Western Sydney, AustraliaTable of ContentsIntroduction: Resituating art, community and citizenship 1. From consensual to open-ended communities 2. Art as aesthetics, culture and economy 3. The multicultural artist as citizen Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the practices of cybercriminals who steal and sell personal information acquired through various means, including mass data breaches, to engage in cybercrime and fraud. Social network analyses of the relational networks of participants are also utilised to examine their sophistication and structure.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. The Marketing and Sales of Stolen Data.- Chapter 3. The Economic Impact of Stolen Data Markets.- Chapter 4. The Social Organization of Actors in Stolen Data Markets.- Chapter 5. Visualizing The Networks of Economic Transactions and Ads in Stolen Data Markets.- Chapter 6. Implications and Conclusions.

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Trade ReviewThis is a much needed introduction to the pertinent issues facing journalism and journalists across the world. A valuable source of insights for students on practical and theoretical journalism courses. * Stefanie Pukallus, University of Sheffield, UK *Educators and students will welcome this solidly researched book for its wealth of facts and theory about global news reporting in the digital age, as well as contemporary case studies and examples that provide rich material for stimulating class discussions and independent reflection. * Angela Romano, Queensland University of Technology, Australia *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Global Journalism in the Digital Age: Key Concepts and Issues 1. Journalism: The Global North and the Global South 2. From the Ground Up: Theories of Global Journalism 3. Global Journalism Flows and Contra-Flows 4. The Evolution of Global Reporting 5. From Them to Us: Alternative and Citizen Journalism 6. Women and Journalism: A Global Transformation? 7. The Future of Global Journalism Conclusion: Making Sense of Global Journalism Glossary References Index.

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