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Introduction: Worlds, Today, Marta Boni, University of Montreal
Section 1: Theories of World Building
1) The Aesthetics of Proliferation, Marie-Laure Ryan, independent scholar
2) Building Science Fiction Worlds, Paolo Bertetti, University of Siena
3)“He Doesn’t Look Like Sherlock Holmes” The Truth Value and Existential Status of Fictional Worlds and their Characters, Julien Lapointe, Concordia University, Montreal
4) “Visible World” The Atlas as a Visual Form of Knowledge and Narrative Paradigm in Contemporary Art ,Cristina Baldacci, IUAV, Venice
Section 2: Economies of World Building
5) A World of Disney: Building a Transmedia Storyworld for Mickey and his Friends, Matthew Freeman, Bath Spa University
6) World Building Logics and Copyright: the Dark Knight and the Great Detective, Roberta Pearson, University of Nottingham
7) Battleworlds: The Management of Multiplicity in the Media Industries, Derek Johnson, University of Wisconsin, Madison
8) Platform Producer Meets Game Master: On the Conditions for the Media Mix, Marc Steinberg, Concordia University, Montreal
9) Narrative Ecosystems: a Multidisciplinary Approach to Media Worlds, Veronica Innocenti and Guglielmo Pescatore, University of Bologna
Section 3: Immersion
10) The Building and Blurring of Worlds: Sound, Space, and Complex Narrative Cinema, Justin Horton, Georgia State University
11) Beyond Immersion:Absorption, Saturation, and Overflow in the Building of Imaginary Worlds, Mark J.P. Wolf, Concordia University, Wisconsin
12) Zombie Escape and Survival Plans: Mapping the Transmedial World of the Dead, Bernard Perron, University of Montreal
13) MMORPG as Locally Realized Worlds of Action, Laurent Di Filippo, Centre de recherches sur les médiations, Université de Lorraine, Nordistik, Universität Basel
Section 4: Media as World Building Devices
14) The Worries of the World(s): Cartoons and Cinema, Karen Redrobe (formerly Beckman), University of Pennsylvania
15) Linguistic Terrain and World Time: Chinese Media Theories and Their World Imaginations, Victor Fan, King’s College London
16) The Worlds Align: Media Convergence and Complementary Storyworlds in Marvel’s Thor: The Dark World, Dru Jeffries, University of Toronto
17) World Building and Metafiction in Contemporary Comic Books: Metalepsis and Figurative Process of Graphic Fiction, Denis Mellier, University of Poitiers
Section 5: Appropriations and Fan Practices
18) The Monster at the End of This Book: Metalepsis, Fandom and Worldmaking in Contemporary TV Series, Valentina Re, Link Campus University of Rome
19) Traversing the “Whoniverse”: Doctor Who’s Hyperdiegesis and Transmedia Discontinuity/Diachrony, Matt Hills, University of Huddersfield
20) Transmediaphilia, World Building, and the Pleasures of the Personal Digital Archive, Jim Collins, University of Notre Dame
21) The Politics of World-building: Heteroglossia in Janelle Monáe’s Afrofuturist WondaLand, Dan Hassler-Forest, Utrecht University
