AP story quoting CCI’s Jeanette Castillo on social media’s role in Trayvon Martin case published around the globe

Dr. Jeanette Castillo, an assistant professor of digital media in the School of Communication, was quoted in an Associated Press story about social media’s role in publicizing the Trayvon Martin shooting. The AP story has been picked up worldwide. A Google search of “Trayvon Martin” and “Jeanette Castillo” yields 25 pages of results, almost all of them links to news sites that published Kyle Hightower’s AP story. A few of the publications that ran the story:

The Telegraph in London;

ABC News

The Huffington Post

The Australian Eye

WFTV.com (Orlando/Daytona Beach/Melbourne, Fl.)

WDRB. com (Louisville, Ky.)

Anchorage Daily News (Anchorage, Alaska)

KTVU.com (San Jose/Oakland, Calif.)

Indianapolis StarĀ (Indianapolis, Ind.)

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, Wash.)

Tri-City HeraldĀ (Kennewick, Pasco and Richland, Wash.)

Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.)

In 2 East Africa (East African regional news site)