Social media enable rapid, peer-to-peer information flow during crisis events, affordances that have both positive and negative consequences. The potential for spreading misinformation is a significant concern. Drawing on an empirical study of information-sharing practices in a crisis-affected community in the Catskill Mountains after Hurricane Irene, this paper describes how an ad hoc group of...

Abstract: This study aims to provide empirical evidence about how big attitudes are Professional Skepticism of Auditors and Utilization Information Technology affect ability auditors in detecting fraudulent financial statements. Research with this quantitative descriptive method using primary data the form a questionnaire as an instrument collection. Respondents was selected convenience samplin...

The present reappraisal of the mantle plume hypothesis is perhaps the most exciting current debate in Earth science. Nevertheless, the fundamental reasons for why it has arisen are often not well understood. They are that 1) many observations do not agree with the predictions of the original model, 2) it is possible that convection of the sort required to generate thermal plumes in the Earth’s ...