ABSTRACT
Materiality, media, sensory and emotional experience and atmosphere again came together in Barbara's account of the 'cosy' sitting room - which was constituted through carefully selected material objects, including the fireplace, carpet, fluffy rug, a large white modular sofa, the television being on, as well as the sense of being together with family. Media anthropologists and those media scholars whose work connects with anthropology have also treated media technologies as a form of material culture and have generally understood heating, digital, and lighting technologies as things that will be appropriated within existing ways of life and environments. Material decay, repair and renewal are all part of home, and engagement with them is a part of everyday life in the home. The ongoing processes through which the atmospheres of home are constituted involve both human intentionality and non-human processes, including those of materials and intangible elements.
