Examining the Storytelling of Medical GoFundMe Campaigns with Kari Campeau

Published: March 31, 2022

Kari Campeau, Assistant Professor of English, published in the latest Technical Communication Quarterly: “It Makes Everything Just Another Story”: A Mixed Methods Study of Medical Storytelling on GoFundMe.” The article presents findings from an interview- and text-based study about writing and storytelling on medical crowdfunding platforms and ends with a few pedagogical implications for teaching and engaging digital storytelling in technical writing courses. The study contributes to questions about patient experience, especially in relationship to the financial and interpersonal dimensions of illness, and what it means to engage with health and medical information online.