publications

1. publications (total: 42)

1A. SSCI journal articles (30)

(# denotes the research students or research interns under my principal supervision; * denotes the corresponding author)

  1. Zhu, R.# & Zhang, X.* (2023). Public sector’s misinformation debunking during the public health campaign: A case of Hong Kong. Health Promotion International. Online first. doi: 10.1093/heapro/daad053. [Q1 in SSCI - Health Policy & Services, 2021 JCR IF = 3.734, Oxford University Press.]

  2. Zhang, X. (2023). Will political disagreement silence political expression? The role of information repertoire filtration and discussion network heterogeneity. Human Communication Research. Online first. doi: 10.1093/hcr/hqad009. [Q1 (top 12%) in SSCI - Communication, 2021 JCR IF = 5.333, Oxford University Press.]

  3. Zhao, X., Chen, L., Jin, Y., & Zhang, X. (2023). Comparing button-based chatbots with webpages for presenting fact-checking results: A case study of health information. Information Processing & Management, 60(2), 103203. Online first. doi: 10.1016/j.ipm.2022.103203. [Q1 (top 14%) in SSCI – Information Science and Library Science, 2021 JCR IF = 7.466, Elsevier.]

  4. Zhang, X., Zhu, R.#, Chen, L., Zhang, Z., & Chen, M.# (2022). News from Messenger? A cross-national comparative study of news media’s audience engagement strategies via Facebook Messenger chatbots. Digital Journalism. Online first. doi: 10.1080/21670811.2022.2145329. [Q1 (top 5%) in SSCI - Communication, 2021 JCR IF = 6.847, Sage Publications Ltd.]

  5. Zhang, X. (2022). Expression avoidance and privacy management as dissonance reduction in the face of online disagreement. Telematics and Informatics. Online first. doi: 10.1016/j.tele.2022.101894. [Q1 (top 5%) in SSCI - Information Science and Library Science, 2021 JCR IF = 9.14, Elsevier.]

  6. Zhang, X. & Zhu, R.# (2022). Health journalists’ social media sourcing during the early outbreak of the public health emergency. Journalism Practice. Online first. doi: 10.1080/17512786.2022.2110927. [SSCI - Communication, 2021 JCR IF = 2.328, Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd.]

  7. Zhang, X., Lin, W.-Y., & Dutton, W. H. (2022). The political consequences of online disagreement: The filtering of communication networks in a polarized political context. Social Media + Society. Online first, doi: 10.1177/20563051221114391. [Q1 (top 15%) in SSCI - Communication, 2021 JCR IF = 4.636, Sage Publications Ltd.]

  8. Zhang, X. & Ho, J. C. F. (2022). Exploring the fragmentation of the representation of data-driven journalism in the Twittersphere: A network analytics approach. Social Science Computer Review. 40(1). doi: 10.1177/0894439320905522. [Q1 (top 13%) in SSCI - Social Science Interdisciplinary, 2019 JCR IF = 2.696, Sage Publications Ltd.]

  9. Zhang, X. & Zhu, R.# (2021). How source-level and message-level factors influence journalists’ social media visibility during a public health crisis. Journalism. Online first. doi: 10.1177/14648849211023153. [Q1 (top 16%) in SSCI - Communication, 2020 JCR IF = 4.436, Sage Publications Ltd.]

  10. Liang, H. & Zhang, X. (2021). Partisan bias of perceived incivility and its political consequences: Evidence from survey experiments in Hong Kong. Journal of Communication, 71(3). doi: 10.1093/joc/jqab008. [Q1 (top 6%) in SSCI - Communication, 2020 JCR IF = 7.270, Oxford University Press.]

  11. Zhang, X. (2021). Innovation and conformity in music reproduction: A network analytic approach to contestants’ song covering in reality shows in Mainland China and the US. International Communication Gazette. 83(7). Online first. doi: 10.1177/17480485211014372. [SSCI - Communication, 2020 JCR IF = 1.859, Sage Publications Ltd.]

  12. Zhang, X. (2020). Effects of freedom restoration, language variety, and issue type on psychological reactance. Health Communication. 35(11), 1316-1327. doi: 10.1080/10410236.2019.1631565. (Q2 in SSCI - Communication, 2018 JCR IF = 1.846, Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd).

  13. Zhang, X. & Zhong, Z.-J. (2020). Extending media system dependency theory to informational media use and environmentalism: A cross-national study. Telematics & Informatics. 50. Online first. doi: 10.1016/j.tele.2020.101378. [Q1 (top 12%) in SSCI – Information Science and Library Science, 2019 JCR IF = 4.139, Elsevier.]

  14. Zhang, X. & Chen, M.# (2020). Journalists’ adoption and media’s coverage of data-driven journalism: A case of Hong Kong. Journalism Practice. Online first. doi: 10.1080/17512786.2020.1824126. [SSCI - Communication, 2019 JCR IF = 1.542, Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd.]

  15. Zhang, X. & Li, W.# (2020). From social media with news: Journalists’ social media use for sourcing and verification. Journalism Practice. 14(10), 1193-1210. doi: 10.1080/17512786.2019.1689372. [Q2 (top 30%) in SSCI - Communication, 2018 JCR IF = 2.124, Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd.]

  16. Lin, W.-Y., Zhang, X.* , & Cao, B. (2018). How do new media influence youths’ health literacy? Exploring the effects of media channel and content on safer sex literacy. International Journal of Sexual Health. 30(4), 354-365. doi: 10.1080/19317611.2018.1509921. (SSCI - Social Science (interdisciplinary), 2017 JCR IF = 1.014, Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd.)

  17. Zhang, X. (2018). Visualization, technologies, or the public? Exploring the articulation of data-driven journalism in the Twittersphere. Digital Journalism. 6(6), 737-758. doi: 10.1080/21670811.2017.1340094. (Q1 (top 18.2%) in SSCI - Communication, 2018 JCR IF = 2.679, Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd.)

  18. Lin, F. & Zhang, X. (2018). Movement-press dynamics and news diffusion: A typology of activism in digital China. China Review, 18(2), 33-63. Link: muse.jhu.edu/article/696528. (Q2 in SSCI – Area Studies, 2017 JCR IF = 0.694, The Chinese University Press)

  19. Zhang, X. & Lin, W.-Y. (2018). Stoking the fires of participation: Extending the Gamson Hypothesis on social media use and elite-challenging political engagement. Computers in Human Behavior. 79, 217-226. doi: 10.1016/j.chb.2017.10.036. (Q1 (top 12%) in SSCI – Psychology (multidisciplinary), 2017 JCR IF = 3.536, Elsevier)

  20. Zhang, X. & Lin, W.-Y. (2018). Hanging together or not? Impacts of social media use and organisational membership on individual and collective political actions. International Political Science Review, 39(2), 273-289. doi: 10.1177/0192512116641842. (Q2 (top 33%) in SSCI – Political Science, 2017 JCR IF = 1.321, Sage Publications Ltd., the flagship journal of the International Political Science Association (IPSA))

  21. Lin, W.-Y., Cao, B., & Zhang, X. (2017). To speak or not to speak? Predicting college students’ outspokenness in the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong. International Journal of Communication, 11, 3704-3720. (Q2 (top 32%) in SSCI – Communication, 2016 JCR IF = 1.498, USC Annenberg Press)

  22. Zhong, Z.-J. & Zhang, X.* (2017). A mediation path to Chinese netizens’ civic engagement: The effects of news usage, civic motivations, online expression and discussion. China: An International Journal, 15(2), 22-43. (SSCI - Area Studies, The NUS Press, National University of Singapore)

  23. Cui, L. & Zhang, X. (2017). What happened to those fans several years later?: Empowerment from Super Girls’ Voice for girls in China (2007-2015). Critical Studies in Media Communication. 34(4), 400-414, doi: 10.1080/15295036.2017.1319070. (SSCI – Communication, 2016 JCR IF = 0.881, Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd.)

  24. Lin, W.-Y., Zhang, X., Song, H.-Y., & Omori, K. (2016). Health information seeking in the Web 2.0 age: Trust in social media, uncertainty reduction, and self-disclosure. Computers in Human Behavior, 56, 289–294. doi: 10.1016/j.chb.2015.11.055. (Q1 (top 12%) in SSCI – Psychology (multidisciplinary), 2015 JCR IF = 2.880, Elsevier)

  25. Zhang, X. (2015). Voting with dollars: A cross-polity and multilevel analysis of political consumerism. International Journal of Consumer Studies, 39(5), 422-436. doi: 10.1111/ijcs.12181. (SSCI – Business, 2014 JCR IF = 1.293, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

  26. Lin, F., Chang, T.-K., & Zhang, X. (2014). After the spillover effect: News flows and power relations in Chinese mainstream media. Asian Journal of Communication, 25(3), 235-254. doi: 10.1080/01292986.2014.955859. (SSCI – Communication, 2013 JCR IF = 0.412, Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd.)

  27. Liu, N. & Zhang, X. (2014). The influence of group communication, government-citizen interaction, and perceived importance of new media on online political discussion. Policy & Internet, 5(4), 444-461. doi: 10.1002/1944-2866.POI348. (SSCI - Communication, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

  28. Zhang, X. & Lin, W.-Y. (2014). Political participation in an unlikely place: How individuals engage in politics through social networking sites in China. International Journal of Communication, 8, 21-42. Full text: http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/2003/1047. (SSCI – Communication, 2013 JCR IF = 0.786, USC Annenberg Press)

  29. Lin, W.-Y., Zhang, X., & Lee, F. L. F. (2013). Making the world a distant place? How foreign TV news affects individual cynicism in post-colonial Hong Kong. International Communication Gazette, 75(8), 715-731. doi: 10.1177/1748048513497160. (SSCI – Communication, Sage Publications Ltd.)

  30. Lin, W.-Y., Zhang, X., Jung, J.-Y., & Kim, Y.-C. (2013). From the wired to wireless generation: Investigating teens’ internet use through the mobile phone. Telecommunications Policy, 37(8), 651-661. doi:10.1016/j.telpol.2012.09.008. (Q1 (18%) in SSCI – Communication, 2012 JCR IF = 1.594, Elsevier)

1B. peer-reviewed publications/book chapters/proceedings (9)

  1. Zhang, X. & Fu, X. (2022). Fact-checkers’ usage of clickbait element on social media and its effects on user engagement. Global Journal of Media Studies. 9, 3, p. 76-94, (in Chinese, CSSCI). [张昕之、傅晓艺（2022）。 〈专业事实核查机构在社交媒体中的「点击诱饵」及其传播效果研究〉。 《全球传媒学刊》（中国北京清华大学主办），第9期，页76-94.]

  2. Chen, L., Zhang, Z., Zhang, X., & Zhao L. (2022, July) A pilot study for understanding users’ attitudes towards a conversational agent for news recommendation. In Proceedings of ACM Conference on Conversational User Interfaces (CUI’22), July 26-28, 2022.

  3. Zhang, Z., Zhang, X., & Chen, L. (2021, September). Informing the design of a news chatbot. IVA’21: The 21st ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents. September 14 - 17, 2021. Virtual Event, Japan.

  4. Peng, Z., Huang, J., Wang, H., Wang, S., Chu, X., Zhang, X., … & Xu, J. (2021, April). BU-trace: A permissionless mobile system for privacy-preserving intelligent contact tracing. In International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (pp. 381-397). Springer, Cham.

  5. Lin, W.-Y. & Zhang, X. (2020). Digital politics in mainland China: Participation in an unlikely place, in Dutton, W. H. (Ed.), A research agenda for digital politics. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.

  6. Ho, J. C. F. & Zhang, X. (2020). Strategies of marketing a new media form to the mass market: A text-mining-based case study of virtual reality games. Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity. 2020(6), 1. doi: 10.3390/joitmc6010001. [Scopus, Elsevier.]

  7. Zhang, X. (2017) Exploring the country co-occurrence network in the Twittersphere at an international economic event. In: Cheng X., Ma W., Liu H., Shen H., Feng S., Xie X. (eds) Social Media Processing. SMP 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science. Vol. 774, 308-318. Springer, Singapore. doi: 10.1007/978-981-10-6805-8_25 (EI, acceptance rate: 20%)

  8. Lin, W.-Y. & Zhang, X. (2012). Seeking the invisible youth: Examining the Otaku’s online-offline social capital construction in Hong Kong. Mass Communication Research, 2012(7), 233-270. (In Chinese, TSSCI). [林宛瑩，張昕之。 （2012）。 〈「隱形少年」現形記：香港御宅族網際網路使用與社會資本建構初探〉，《新聞學研究》 ，2012年第7期，頁233-270.]

  9. Zhang, X. (2010). The impact of online social networking on university students’ civic participation: A case of two universities in Southern China. In G. Zhang (Ed.), Communication in e-Society: Innovation, collaboration, and responsibility (pp. 95-115). Shanghai: Shanghai People’s Press. [張昕之 (2010)。〈社交網站使用與大學生公民參與行爲之關係：以中國南部兩所高校爲例〉。 張國良主编：《e社會傳播：創新·合作·責任》，頁95-115，上海人民出版社].

2. professional contributions (3)

  1. Zhu, J. J. H., Huang, Y., & Zhang, X. (2018). Dialogue on computational communication research: Origins, theories, methods, and research questions. Communication & Society, 44, 1–24. [祝建華、黃煜、張昕之（2018）。〈對談計算傳播學：起源、理論、方法與研究問題〉。《傳播與社會學刊》，第44 期，頁1–24].

  2. Wang, Q.#, Zhang, X., & Man, Z. (2018). Survey of content production in Hong Kong Media. In Li, R. & Huang, Y. (eds), Hong Kong digital media development report 2018 (pp. 224–247). Hong Kong: Chung Hwa Press. [王祺樂、張昕之、滿子梵（2018）。〈香港媒體內容生產調查〉。 李文、黃煜主編： 《香港媒體數碼發展報告 2018》， 2018年，頁224 – 247。 香港：中華書局。 (# student co-author).

  3. Zhang, X. (2014). Book review: A Review of Democracy on trial: Social movements and cultural politics in postauthoritarian Taiwan, by Y.-C. Chuang. The China Review. 14(2), 265-269.

3. selected peer-reviewed international major conference presentations

  1. Zhang, X., Peng, T.-Q., & Zhu, Q. (2023, Aug). Factors influencing debunking messages’ effectiveness: Comparing Hong Kong, the Netherlands, and the United States. Paper presented at the 2023 Annual Conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), DC, the U.S., 7 - 11 August 2023.

  2. Guo, S., Zhang, X., Wang, D. (2023, May). Zoom boom and sensor-mediated impression management: The role of expertise and power relations. Paper presented at the 73rd Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Toronto, Canada, 25 - 29 May 2023.

  3. Zhang, X., Zhu, R. (2023, May). Will political disagreement foster a civic culture? The role of social media self-Withdrawal and network heterogeneity in a polarized context. Paper presented at the 73rd Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Toronto, Canada, 25 - 29 May 2023.

  4. Zhu, R., Zhang, X. (2023, May). Public sector’s misinformation debunking during the public health campaign: A case of Hong Kong’s COVID-19 vaccination programme. Paper presented at the 73rd Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Toronto, Canada, 25 - 29 May 2023.

  5. Gou, Z., Wu, Y., Zhang, X., Wang, C. (2023, May) Yesterday Once More: Collective storytelling constitutes the success of digital cultural products on music streaming platforms. Paper presented at the 73rd Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Toronto, Canada, 25 - 29 May 2023.

  6. Zhang, X. (2022, August). Expression avoidance and privacy management as dissonance reduction in the face of online disagreement. Paper presented at the 2022 Annual Conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), 3 – 7 August 2022.

  7. Zhang, X. & Fu, X. (2022, May). Codes, collaboration, and communities: A network analysis of the online communities of data-driven journalism on a social coding platform. Paper presented at the 72nd Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Paris, France, 26-30 May 2022.

  8. Zhang, X., Lin, W.-Y., Dutton, W. (2022, May). The political consequences of online disagreement: The filtering of communication networks in a polarized political context. Paper presented at the 72nd Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Paris, France, 26-30 May 2022.

  9. Fu, X., Zhang, X., Zhu, R., Ping, H., & Chang, Y. (2022, May). “FALSE! Read about it here!” Fact-checkers’ social media language feature and its effects on user engagement. Paper presented at the 72nd Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Paris, France, 26-30 May 2022.

  10. Zhang, X. & Zhu, R. (2021, May). Health journalists’ social media sourcing during the public health emergency: A network analytics approach. Paper presented at the 71st Annual Conference (virtual) of the International Communication Association (ICA), 27-31 May 2021.

  11. Zhu, R. & Zhang, X. (2021, May). How source-level and message-level factors influence journalists’ social media visibility during a public health emergency. Paper presented at the 71st Annual Conference (virtual) of the International Communication Association (ICA), 27-31 May 2021.

  12. Zhang, X., Guo, S., & Li, R. (2020, May). Robot journalists currently not needed: Exploring newsrooms’ practices of AI-powered initiatives with a mix-method approach. Paper presented at the 70th Annual Conference (virtual) of the International Communication Association (ICA), Gold Coast, Australia, 21-25 May 2020.

  13. Zhang, X. (2020, May). Supply–demand versus social learning: Pathways from social media use to citizens’ demand for democracy. Paper presented at the 70th Annual Conference (virtual) of the International Communication Association (ICA), Gold Coast, Australia, 21-25 May 2020.

  14. Zhang, X. & Li, W. (2020, May). From social media with news: Journalists’ social media use for sourcing and verification. Paper presented at the 70th Annual Conference (virtual) of the International Communication Association (ICA), Gold Coast, Australia, 21-25 May 2020.

  15. Lin, W.-Y. & Zhang, X. (2020, May). Are social media a political movement equalizer? Survey evidences from two Asian polities. Paper presented at the 70th Annual Conference (virtual) of the International Communication Association (ICA), Gold Coast, Australia, 21-25 May 2020.

  16. Lin, W.-Y., Oktavianus, J., & Zhang, X. (2020, May). Feeling politics? How communication mediates the effects of emotions on political participation. Paper presented at the 70th Annual Conference (virtual) of the International Communication Association (ICA), Gold Coast, Australia, 21-25 May 2020.

  17. Zhang, X. (2019, May). Data, coders, and designers in the newsrooms: The adoption of data-driven journalism in Hong Kong’s local news organizations. Paper presented at the 69th Annual Conference of International Communication Association (ICA), Washington DC, USA, 24 - 28 May 2019.

  18. Ho, J. C. F. & Zhang, X. (2019, May). Marketing virtual reality games with text: A text mining analysis of game descriptions on Steam. Paper presented at the 69th Annual Conference of International Communication Association (ICA), Washington DC, USA, 24 - 28 May 2019.

  19. Zhang, X., Zhang, L., Zhang, M., Liu, Y., He, W., & Zhou, W. (2018, May). Monkey King, Naruto, and Mickey Mouse: Mapping the co-consumption network of animation protagonists in mainland China. Paper presented at the 68th Annual Conference of International Communication Association (ICA), Prague, The Czech Republic, 24 - 28 May, 2018.

  20. Zhang, X. (2017, May) Visualization, technologies, or the public? A text mining analysis of the articulation of data-driven journalism in the Twittersphere. Paper presented at the 67th Annual Conference of International Communication Association (ICA), San Diego, USA, 25 – 29 May, 2017.

  21. Zhang, X. & Lin, W.-Y. (2017, May). Extending the Gamson hypothesis on social media use and elite-challenging political participation: A cross-polity study. Paper presented at the 67th Annual Conference of International Communication Association (ICA), San Diego, USA, 25 – 29 May, 2017.

  22. Zhang, X. (2016, May). The effects of freedom restoration, message frames, and language variety on psychological reactance. Paper presented at the 66th Annual Conference of International Communication Association (ICA), Fukuoka, Japan, 9-13 June, 2016.

  23. Cui, L. & Zhang, X. (2016, May). What happened to those tomboys several years later?: Empowerment from Super Girls’ Voice for girls in mainland China (2007-2015). Paper presented at the 66th Annual Conference of International Communication Association (ICA), Fukuoka, Japan, 9-13 June, 2016.

  24. Lin, W.-Y., Cao, B., & Zhang, X. (2016, May). To speak or not to speak: Predicting college students’ outspokenness in the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong. Paper presented at the 66th Annual Conference of International Communication Association (ICA), Fukuoka, Japan, 9-13 June, 2016.

  25. Zhang, X., & Zhong, Z.-J. (2015, May). Mapping the boundary of media effects on environmental concerns: Evidence from 37 societies. Paper presented at the 65th Annual Conference of International Communication Association (ICA), San Juan, Puerto Rico, 21-25 May 2015.

  26. Lin, W.-Y., & Zhang, X. (2015, May). From spectators to participants: A study of affective intelligence, media uses, and political participation in Hong Kong. Paper presented at the 65th Annual Conference of International Communication Association (ICA), San Juan, Puerto Rico, 21-25 May 2015.

  27. Wang, C.-J., Chen, H.X., & Zhang, X. (2015, May) The landscape of information diffusion on Sina Weibo: Investigating the rich-club effect. Paper presented at the 65th Annual Conference of International Communication Association (ICA), San Juan, Puerto Rico, 21-25 May 2015.

  28. Zhang, X. & Lin, W.-Y. (2014, May) The cynics in action: Social networking sites use, political attitudes, and political participation in mainland China and Hong Kong. Paper presented at the 64th Annual Conference of International Communication Association (ICA). Seattle, Washington, the U.S., May 2014. [Political Communication Division Travel Grant Awardee]

  29. Zhang, X., & Lin, W.-Y. (2014, May) Bowling alone or together? Social media uses, organizational membership, and political participation. Paper presented at the ICA 2014 Pre-conference: New Media and Citizenship in Asia: Values, Digital Politics, and Civic Well-Being, Seattle, Washington, the U.S., May 2014. [Division Travel Grant Awardee]

  30. Zhong, Z.-J., & Zhang, X. (2014, May). Media and psychological predictors of civic engagement: Uses of news, motivation, political efficacy, and relative deprivation. Paper presented at the 64th Annual Conference of International Communication Association (ICA). Seattle, Washington, the U.S., May 2014.

  31. Zhang, X., & Zhang, F. (2013, August). Powered by democracy? - A multilevel model of media uses and political participation across Asian countries. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), D.C., the U.S., Aug 8 – 11, 2013. [McCombs & Shaw Best Paper Award, the Political Communication Interest Group]

  32. Zhang, X. (2013, June). The myth of “voting with dollars”: A cross-polity and multilevel analysis of political consumerism. Paper presented at the 63rd Annual Conference of International Communication Association (ICA). London, the U.K., June 17-21, 2013.

  33. Lin, W.-Y., Zhang, X., & Lee, F. L. F. (2013, June). Making the world a distant place? How foreign TV news affects individual cynicism in post-colonial Hong Kong. Paper presented at the 63rd Annual Conference of International Communication Association (ICA). London, the U.K., June 17-21, 2013.

  34. Lin, F. & Zhang, X. (2012, May). Contextualizing inter-media influence: Diffusion of online news about three collective actions in China. Paper presented at the 62nd Annual Conference of International Communication Association (ICA). Phoenix, Arizona, the U.S., May 24-28, 2012.

  35. Lin, F. & Zhang, X. (2011, August). Bureaucratic nature of news websites and online activism in China. Paper presented at the 106th Convention of American Sociological Association (ASA). Las Vegas, the U.S., 13-16 August 2011.

  36. Zhang, X. (2011, August). Twenty years of internet and civic engagement: A review beyond hypes and hopes. Paper presented at the Annual Convention of Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC). St. Louis, the U.S., 9-13 August 2011.

(updated: July 2023)

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