This document is a prospectus defense for a design project focused on co-creative networks in games. It discusses topics like agency, policy, and economy as they relate to coordinative work that enables sociotechnical networks to form dense interconnections. It also references discussions from forums on a game called Little Big Community and examines issues like usability, digital rights management, and how tools can help or limit what players are able to do within a game's systems.

1. Designing Co-creative Networks in Games Agency, Policy, and Economy Dave Jones Prospectus Defense 9 March 2011 Old Dominion University

2. Net Work coordinativework that enables sociotechnical networks…to hold together and form dense interconnections. Spinuzzi, 2008, p. 137

3. Little Big Community Blogs Facebook Wikis Twitter Player-creator Playstation Network Sony Computer Entertainment Game Software Game Developer Policies Game Publisher

5. StevenL (2009) LBC Forums

6. StevenL (2009) LBC Forums

7. What a device allows for forbids…the morality of a setting both negative…and positive. Akrich & Latour (1992) Co-creation …a sign, an archive, a document…a trace…they allow new translations while while keeping some types of relations intact. Latour (1999)

10. Usability Issues riddled with clumsy user interfaces and saddled with DRM pressures that threaten these experiences. Potts, 2010, p. 309

11. Prying Open Black Boxes Tommy012345 (2009) LBC Forums

12. Prescription What tools help me? How can I do it? What do I want to do? Inscription

14. Thank You