Introduction: Worlds, Today, Section 1: Theories of World Building,
1. The Aesthetics of Proliferation,
2. Building Science Fiction Worlds,
3. 'He Doesn’t Look Like Sherlock Holmes': The Truth Value and Existential Status of Fictional Worlds and their Characters,
4. 'Visible World': The Atlas as a Visual Form of Knowledge and Narrative Paradigm in Contemporary Art, Section 2: Economies of World Building,
5. A World of Disney: Building a Transmedia Storyworld for Mickey and his Friends,
6. World Building Logics and Copyright: the Dark Knight and the Great Detective,
7. Battleworlds: The Management of Multiplicity in the Media Industries,
8. Platform Producer Meets Game Master: On the Conditions for the Media Mix,
9. Narrative Ecosystems: a Multidisciplinary Approach to Media Worlds, Section 3: Immersion,
10. The Building and Blurring of Worlds: Sound, Space, and Complex Narrative Cinema,
11. Beyond Immersion: Absorption, Saturation, and Overflow in the Building of Imaginary Worlds,
12. Zombie Escape and Survival Plans: Mapping the Transmedial World of the Dead,
13. MMORPG as Locally Realized Worlds of Action, Section 4: Media as World Building Devices,
14. The Worries of the World(s): Cartoons and Cinema,
15. Linguistic Terrain and World Time: Chinese Media Theories and Their World Imaginations,
16. The Worlds Align: Media Convergence and Complementary Storyworlds in Marvel’s Thor: The Dark World,
17. World Building and Metafiction in Contemporary Comic Books: Metalepsis and Figurative Process of Graphic Fiction, Section 5: Appropriations and Fan Practices,
18. The Monster at the End of This Book: Metalepsis, Fandom and Worldmaking in Contemporary TV Series,
19. Traversing the 'Whoniverse': Doctor Who’s Hyperdiegesis and Transmedia Discontinuity/Diachrony,
20. Transmediaphilia, World Building, and the Pleasures of the Personal Digital Archive,
21. The Politics of World-building: Heteroglossia in Janelle Monae’s Afrofuturist WondaLand