Fantastic Intimacy: How Final Fantasy XIV Provides Social Belonging in Japan

Mattias van Ommen

Cornell University Press, 2026

Finding Belonging in Competitive Play: How a Japanese Splatoon Discord Community Functions as a Third Place

Mattias van Ommen, Ginga Yahanashi

Social Media + Society, vol. 11(4), 2025

Fantastic Intimacy: How Final Fantasy XIV Provides Social Belonging in Japan

Mattias van Ommen

Cornell University Press, 2026

Chapter 9: Convergence and Cosmopolitanism in Online Games: non-Japanese players on Japanese Final Fantasy XIV servers

Mattias van Ommen

, pp. 123-138, Rachael Hutchinson (ed.), The Handbook of Japanese Games and Gameplay, Tokyo: Japan Documents Press; Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2025

Finding Belonging in Competitive Play: How a Japanese Splatoon Discord Community Functions as a Third Place

Mattias van Ommen, Ginga Yahanashi

Social Media + Society, vol. 11(4), 2025

Emergent affect in Final Fantasy VII and Japanese role-playing games

Mattias van Ommen

Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds, vol. 10, Intellect, 2018, pp. 21-39

Guild Wars 2, the Frankfurt School and Dialectical Fairy Scenes: A Critical Approach Towards Massively Multiplayer Online Video Games

Mattias van Ommen

Games and Culture, vol. 13, 2018, pp. 547-567

Extracurricular Paths into Job Markets in Contemporary Japan: The Way of Both Pen and Soccer Ball

Mattias van Ommen

Japanese Studies, vol. 35, Routledge, 2015, pp. 85--102

Rituals of Empathy: Emotional Expression, Ludic Action, and Social Belonging in Japanese Online Games

Mattias van Ommen

JAWS-AJJ joint conference at the University of Hyogo, 2025 Apr 5