Pink, SarahHjorth, LarissaHorst, HeatherNettheim, JoshBell, Genevieve2021-10-261367-5494http://hdl.handle.net/1885/251192In this article, we advance current discussions by bringing together debates about digital play and digital labour. We consider everyday life entanglements of mobile media and digital work and play at home. To develop this argument, we analyse the embodied and affective dimensions of mundane everyday life at home with digital media through the concepts of atmosphere and ambient play. We argue that attention to how digital play is implicated in the constitution of texture and feeling of the everyday needs to underpin our understanding of how mobile media are participating in shifts in everyday experiences of work and home. In doing so, we draw on ethnographic research undertaken with middle-class families in Melbourne, Australia.The research on this article focused on the Australia-based part of the Locating the Mobile project, funded by an Australian Research Council Linkage Grant with Intel (LP130100848), 2013–2016, with international partner investigators Baohua Zhao and Fumitoshi Kato.application/pdfen-AU© The Author(s) 2017Ambient playatmospheres of homedigital playmobile mediaplaybour201810.1177/13675494177056022020-11-23