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What is Cyberbullying

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Disturbing others repeatedly through technology.
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Prevention of Cyberbullying at Schools
Şenay Sezgin Nartgün (Bolu Abant İzzet Baysal University, Turkey) and İbrahim Li̇mon (Ministry of National Education, Turkey)
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 13
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-2827-3.ch010
Abstract
This chapter aims to deal with cyberbullying as a globally increasing problem. Firstly, the context which facilitates the incidents is discussed. Then, the definition of cyberbullying, its distinctive features, forms of cyberbullying, and possible outcomes for the victims are briefly mentioned. And lastly, the main point of the chapter, which is the prevention strategies at school, is discussed based on the literature. When you enter the term “cyberbullying” in Google Academic and restrict the search for years 2000-2009, you get 3,720 results in .08 seconds. On the other hand, when you restrict the search for years between 2010-2019, you get 26,300 results in .09 seconds, which can be considered as the clear evidence of a globally growing interest in cyberbullying both as a research area and as a problem for parents, educators, and psychologists.
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New Directions in Understanding Cyberbullying
the deliberate and repeated misuse of communication technology by an individual or group to threaten or harm others.
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The Nature of Cyberbullying Among Youths
Children’s and adolescents’ usage of electronic technologies to hostilely and intentionally harass, embarrass, and intimidate others.
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Cyberbullying: Definition, Behaviors, Correlates, and Adjustment Problems
Children’s and adolescents’ usage of electronic technologies to hostilely and intentionally harass, embarrass, and intimidate others.
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Utilisation of Social Media for Child Abuse Prevention in Nigeria
Is bullying which uses e-technology as a means of victimizing others”. It is the usage of internet media or mobile technologies like email, chat rooms, and discussion groups on the internet, mobile phones, mobile phone cameras, web pages, text messages, with the intention of harming other persons.
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Tech That, Bully!: Defeating Cyberbullying With Its Own Weapons
Attitude of overcoming from people that use informatic and web communication to denigrate their peers. It can be extended beyond physical contexts given the lack of boundaries which characterizes the world wide web.
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Cyberbullying Issues
The use of information and communication technologies to encourage deliberate, recurrent, and aggressive behaviour by a person or group with the intent to damage others Bullycide- Bullying which results in the victim's suicide.
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Cyberbullying in Adolescence: Victimization and Adolescence
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Intimate Partner Cyber Abuse Viewed Through the Lens of Criminology
The act of bullying by employing tools available on electronic devices which connect to the internet, messaging services, and others digital communication networks.
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A Historic First: The President of the United States as/is a Cyberbully
Bullying behavior such as insults, threats, and humiliating words enacted through digital channels such as e-mail, social media, blogs, or text messaging.
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Workplace Bullying in Digital Environments: Antecedents, Consequences, Prevention, and Future Directions
The process of sending and/or receiving harmful messages through communication technology, email, and social media.
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An Exploration of Intrusive Mobile Phone Behavior
The use of information and communication technologies to support deliberate, repeated and hostile behavior by an individual or group, designed to intentionally to cause harm.
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In-Person Video and Peer-Delivered Approaches to Cyberbullying Prevention
Repetitive and intentional aggressive acts that are performed using electronic devices.
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What Is Cyberbullying?
It is the repetitive act of aggressive behavior towards the cyber victim in a digital environment.
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Revisiting the Cyberbullying Legislation in Bangladesh: A Comparative Study With the Global Scenario
Cyberbullying includes sending, posting, or sharing negative, harmful, false, or mean content about someone else. It can include sharing personal or private information about someone else causing embarrassment or humiliation.
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Terms of the Digital Age: Realities and Cultural Paradigms
Intentional and repeated harm inflicted through the use of computers, cell phones, and other electronic devices.
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Digital Security Strategy
A form of bullying that occurs through electronic communications, such as messages on social media.
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Cyber Behavior
As a behavior that involves the use of cell phones, instant messaging, e-mail, chat rooms or social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter to harass, threaten or intimidate or support deliberate, repeated, and hostile behavior by an individual or group that is intended to harm others.
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The Dark Side of Engaging With Social Networking Sites (SNS)
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Psychological Impact and Assessment of Youth for the Use of Social Network
Cyberbullying is tormenting that happens over computerized gadgets like mobile phones, PCs, and tablets.
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The Nature, Extent, Causes, and Consequences of Cyberbullying
When young people harass, humiliate, embarrass, intimidate, and/or threaten another young person via information and communication technologies.
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Cyberbullying and Internet Safety
Like traditional (offline) bullying, it is aggressive behavior that is repeated, intended to cause harm, and involves a power imbalance between bully and victim. It is distinguished by its occurrence through online contact. The electronic means of communication spotlights additional elements of potential relevance (i.e., greater anonymity, scale of publicity, missing or ambiguous social cues, 24/7 feature of the Internet) for understanding the nature, severity, and impact of the online name-calling, threats, and acts meant to embarrass, harass, or humiliate.
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Cyberbullying: A Form of Peer Violence in the Digital Era
Cyberbullying is bullying through digital technologies. Repeated behavior intended to frighten, infuriate, or embarrass those who are victims.
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Adolescent Text Messaging
Using technology to harass, negatively influence, or intimidate another person.
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ICT Emerging Technology Impact Within Learning Ecosystem Cyberbullying Among Students: Facts or Rumors?
Is an extension of traditional bullying, where technology is most commonly been used, a new element of the internet has been added to the old kind of bullying. Based on some research studies, traditional bullying can even start at a very young age.
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Occurrence of Cyberbullying in Slovenian Schools and the Need for Communication
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Social and Legislative Issues in Handling Cyberbullying in India
Cyberbullying is the act of bullying a person typically by sending messages of an intimidating or threatening nature, and doing that constantly to the same person.
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Towards Safer Internet for Students with the Aid of a Hypermedia Filtering Tool
Cyberbullying is the situation where a child, preteen or teen is tormented, threatened, harassed, humiliated, embarrassed or otherwise targeted by another child, preteen or teen using the Internet, interactive and digital technologies or mobile phones.
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Cyberbullying
It is a form of bullying or harassment using electronic means.
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Understanding Cyberbullying and Where We Go From Here
The use of electronic communication, such as web pages, blogs, social networking, texting, and emailing, via electronic devices, such as personal computers, lap tops, tablets, and cell phones to repeatedly harass and torment an individual which may lead to health endangering factors, such as depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation, and potentially suicide attempts.
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Defining and Conceptualizing Cyberbullying
An aggressive act or behavior targeted towards an individual via digital technology.
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An Analysis of News Containing Cyberbullying in the Metaverse
Cyberbullying is generally the wrong use of this medium by individuals with the advancement of technological developments.
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Is Sharenting Apart From Bullying?: A Perspective Among Parents Towards Their Social Media Activities
The use of electronic communication to bully a person, normally by sending messages of an intimidating or threatening nature.
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How Theoretical Frameworks Inform the Understanding of the Relationship Between Gender and Cyberbullying
Aggressive behaviors that are perpetrated intentionally through mediated communication, such as email, text messages, social media, or other online websites.
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Cyberbullying: A Literature Review on Cross-Cultural Research in the Last Quarter
The persistent, technical, or relational harm behavior of an individual using information and communication technologies.
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Mobile Phone-Related Behaviors and Problems in Japan
Cyberbullying is defined as sending or posting harmful material or engaging in other forms of social aggression using the Internet or other digital technologies ( Willard, 2007 ).
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Cyberbullying: The Dark Side of Digital Interactions
Children’s and adolescents’ usage of electronic technologies to hostilely and intentionally harass, embarrass, and intimidate others.
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Cyberbullying on Chinese Social Media: Language Features and Influence Factors in Comments on Key Opinion Leaders' Posts
Cyberbullying is any behavior performed through electronic or digital media by individuals or groups that repeatedly communicates hostile or aggressive messages intended to inflict harm or discomfort on others.
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Workplace Cyberbullying in Organizations With Criminal Intent and Subtle Means: A Very Pleasant and Safe Organization Culture Brings in a Better Work Culture in an Organization
A persistent pattern of mistreating (Chatman & John, 1994 AU197: The in-text citation "Chatman & John, 1994" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. ) by causing either physical or emotional harm. It also includes various tactics by using verbal, non-verbal, psychological, physical abuse and humiliating for bullying employee including all these electronically.
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The Effects of Social Networking Sites on Child and Adolescent Psychology: Theory, Research, and Interventions
The act of using digital communication tools, such as social media, to harass, intimidate, or harm individuals or groups, often involving repeated aggressive actions intended to cause emotional distress.
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Social Media Bullying in the Workplace: Impacts on Motivation, Productivity, and Workplace Culture
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The Meaning, Prevalence, and Outcomes of Cyberbullying in the Workplace
Bullying that occurs through the use of information and communication technologies, most notably the internet and cellular phones.
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Mobile Technology and Cyberbullying
Cyberbullying describes the behaviors that are intended to harm others in the digital world. It is often used interchangeably with Cybervictimization. Specifically, “it involves the use of information and communication technologies such as email, cell phone and paper text messages, instant messaging, defamatory personal websites, and defamatory online personal polling websites, to support deliberate repeated, and hostile behavior by an individual or a group that is intended to harm others (Besley, 2004 AU72: The in-text citation "Besley, 2004" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. , as cited in Li et al., 2012 AU73: The citation "Li et al., 2012" matches multiple references. Please add letters (e.g. "Smith 2000a"), or additional authors to the citation, to uniquely match references and citations. , p. 6).
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Metaverse Forensics: A Preliminary Analysis of Opportunities and Challenges
A form of online harassment and intimidation facilitated by digital communication technologies to threaten, embarrass, humiliate, or target individuals or groups through online threats, rude texts, verbal abuse, impersonation, and offensive content.
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The Role of Social Media in the Fight Against Gender Violence
Cyberbullying refers to electronic bullying, Internet bullying, cyber aggression, online bullying.
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Educating the Public to Combat Online Defamation, Doxing, and Impersonation
Cyberbullying includes online defamation, doxing, impersonation, threats of violence, mocking, etc. This can occur by email, a bulletin board, an online chat, an article, a message board, a forum, a blog, a social network, another website, text messaging, etc.
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Automatic Detection of Cyberbullying to Make Internet a Safer Environment
Is a unique phenomenon associated with is the use of the Internet, cell phones or other technologies to send or post a text or images intended to hurt or embarrass another person.
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Cyberbullying From a Research Viewpoint: A Bibliometric Approach
Comprehends an inimical behaviour to harm others by an individual or a group, perpetrated by the electronic devices, inducing psychosomatic problems.
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Explicit Content: An Investigation of Online Sexual Harassment
Abuse of another person through computer-mediated channels such as sending offensive or threatening messages, sharing explicit photos, or threats of violence or retaliation.
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Cyberbullying Among Malaysian Children Based on Research Evidence
This refers to intentional inflicting of psychological torture and hurling of abusive words online (in text, graphics or audio-visual formats) by a person (adult or minor) targeted at a minor or a group of minors using the Internet aimed at scaring them.
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Youths and Cyberbullying: Description, Theories, and Recommendations
Children’s and adolescents’ usage of electronic technologies to hostilely and intentionally harass, embarrass, and intimidate others.
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Stress, Coping, and Social Media Use
A repetitive and intentional harassment of others via technological devices.
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Cyberbullying: A Research Overview
Repeated aggressive, intentional acts carried out by a group or individual using electronic media.
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Cyberbullying: Negative Interaction Through Social Media
Children’s and adolescents’ usage of electronic technologies to hostilely and intentionally harass, embarrass, and intimidate others.
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Effects of Bullying on Child Health
It is bullying that takes place in a virtual environment using digital technologies.
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Developing an Understanding of Cyberbullying: The Emotional Impact and Struggle to Define
The use of web-based communication media or hand-held technologies by an individual or group to deliver slanderous, harassing, demeaning, obscene, racist, or other offensive messages, images, or video either directly or indirectly that result in emotional harm to the target of the communication.
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Workplace Cyberbullying and Online Harassment as an Organizational Threat: Exploring the Negative Organizational Outcomes
Using online methods to continually communicate negatively or share undesirable content with people from offline environments.
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Children, Risks, and the Mobile Internet
Relates to aggressive and mean behaviour directed to harm others, which is conducted through ICTs such as social network sites, mobile phones etc. Compared to face-to-face bullying, cyberbullying can be anonymous, is more persistent - due to the persistence and replicability of digital communication - and involves wider audiences, including “invisible audiences”.
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Students Hurting Students: Cyberbullying as a Mobile Phone Behavior
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Stealth Assessment of Aggression and Bullying
Bullying that takes place through electronic forms of contact.
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The Ugly Face of the Digital World: Cyberbullying
The negative attitudes and behaviors of the bully to harm the victim by using tools and environments like social media, e-mail, internet, mobile phone, computer.
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Esports Business and Cyberbullying: Risks and Precautions
A person or a group deliberately hurting, ridiculing and constantly rude to a person who cannot easily defend himself/herself on any cyber environment.
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Increasing Virtual Offences Through Cyberbullying in Developing Countries: Catalytic Factors Leading to Virtual Offences
A persistent pattern of mistreating (Chatman & John, 1994 AU44: The in-text citation "Chatman & John, 1994" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. ) by causing either physical or emotional harm. It also includes various tactics by using verbal, non-verbal, psychological, physical abuse and humiliating for bullying employee including all these electronically.
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Cyberbullying in Adolescence: Victimization and Adolescence
Using electronic communication to intimidate, harass, or threaten another.
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Social Media and Children
The act of spreading fake, artificial, embarrassing, and hostile information about others, which may affect children profoundly and cause depression, anxiety, isolation and suicide as a result.
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Sex, Cyberbullying, and the Mobile Phone
Cyberbullying is bullying using electronic means.
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Mobile Phone Use by Middle School Students
Harassment using electronic means.
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Cyberbullying in Organizations
Harassment or bullying that occurs through digital channels.
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Mapping Cyberbullying and Workplace Cyberbullying: A Road Towards Understanding Research Gaps in the Indian Context
Cyberbullying is the harassment, bullying, or threatening individual using electronic means like computers, laptops, mobile phones in a public platform (Social Networking sites).
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Cyberbullying and Family Communication Theory and Research
Deliberate and repeated harm to others through the use of communication technology.
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The Human Rights-Based Approach to Combat Cyberbullying Against Women and Girls
The use of information and communications technologies (ICTs) by an individual or group to intentionally embarrass, taunt, harass, threaten, torment, or humiliate a person.
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iCitizen: Promoting Technology Safety and Digital Citizenship in School Counseling
The use of technology, usually through digital or social media, to intimidate, threaten, or otherwise cause harm to an individual.
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Fifty Shades of Pretty and Thin: Psychological Research on Gender Stereotypes in Media and Advertising
Harassing a target using Internet Communication Technology (ICT). Cyberbullying encompasses many forms of harassment (e.g., cyberstalking, revenge-porn, flaming, impersonation, happy-slapping, etc.). Girls are more likely than boys to become cyberbullying victims.
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Cyberbullying: Definition, Description, Characteristics, and Consequences
When young people harass, humiliate, embarrass, intimidate, and/or threaten another young person via information and communication technologies.
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Cyberbullying and the Importance of Cyber Security Awareness in Preventing Cyberbullying
It is the use of technology to harass, threaten, embarrass, or target another person.
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Cyberbullying: Prevalence, Characteristics, and Consequences
Children’s and adolescents’ usage of electronic technologies to hostilely and intentionally harass, embarrass, and intimidate others.
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Encountering New Risks in Educating Children in the Contemporary Society: The Risk of Cyberbullying
The bullying acts that involve the use of new communications technology and take place in cyberspace.
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Organizational Activity: Cultural-Historical Perspectives on Workplace Cyberbullying Prevention
Cyberbullying occurs when a person is repeatedly exposed to negative behaviors or actions. It may involve unwanted online harassment, denigration, insults, and hacking that occur over time and which may denote a difference in technological skill that leads to a power imbalance.
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An Increasing Problem in Schools: Peer Bullying
It is the exposure of an individual to negative actions, which uses communication technologies, by her peer or peers who are self-powerful.
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Cyberbullies and Cyberpunks, Oh My: Examining Cyberbullying Through a Domestic and International Lens
Repeated harm with intents to harass victims using technologies or electronic methods.
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The Use of Social Media: Issues, Challenges, and Strategies for Adult Teaching and Learning
Any bullying that takes place online, or using electronic technology.
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Cyberbullying and Bullying in Spanish Participants With Eating Disorders
It refers to the action of harming, intimidating or coercing by abusing power through verbal, physical and/or social behavior made through electronic technology such as cell phones, email and text messaging.
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