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Use when deciding whether a project belongs at CSCW — is the group, community, or organization the real unit of analysis? — and running the routing decision against CHI, ICWSM, DIS, GROUP, TOCHI, and social-science journals before any drafting or platform account setup begins.

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# CSCW Topic Selection

CSCW publishes human-centered research on technology that supports or reshapes
social, cooperative, and collaborative practice. The venue test is not "does this
involve people and computers" — nearly everything does — but **whether the paper's
explanatory action happens at the level of a group, community, organization, or
network**. Run this decision before writing, because the framing it produces changes
the introduction, the methods, and even which platform you submit through.

## The unit-of-analysis test

Ask three questions of the project's core claim:

1. **Who is the protagonist?** If the sentence "we show that ___" is completed by a
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