Sedona Chinn, Dan Hiaeshutter-Rice, P. Sol Hart, Brendon M.H. Larson
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ABSTRACTInvasive species are considered a significant threat to biodiversity and economic activities. Concerned stakeholders have adopted militaristic metaphors and xenophobic language to raise public awareness about the issue, yet communication theory provides conflicting guidance on whether this is likely to be effective. This research insight analyzes over 400,000 Facebook posts from North American stakeholders to find that stakeholder Facebook pages discuss invasive species infrequently, sometimes using militaristic and rarely xenophobic language, but that neither militaristic nor xenophobic language is associated with online engagement.KEYWORDS: Invasive speciesmetaphorpublic engagementsocial media Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).
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