In contemporary life, the mobile phone is integral to digital and material placemaking practices. In this article, drawing on ethnographic analysis conducted in Perth and Melbourne (Australia) in the first months of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, we explore how this relation has been recalibrated as an effect of ‘stay-at-home’ restrictions. We first provide a brief overview of our methodological and interpretative approach – drawing from postphenomenology as a useful framework for understanding the mobile–body–place relation and digital placemaking at home. Second, we consider how mobile media are ‘situated’ in the domestic environment. Third, through an analysis of participant narratives, we explore the concept of net locality (Gordon and de Souza e Silva (2011) through the lens of embodiment theory and suggest that the Covid-19 context has altered our experience of ‘networked corporeality’. Finally, we discuss the ambiguity of digital intimacy in the decoupling of mobile media and the body as a result of a rapid increase in both screen time and time spent at home. Throughout the article, we argue that mobile media use in the home is thoroughly enmeshed in the shifting boundaries of privacy, placemaking and domestic space. We question how the placemaking functionality of mobile media, the intimate body–technology relation specific to mobile media practices and ‘being-at-home’ were subsequently modified by physical distancing and isolation.

在当代生活中，移动电话是数字和物质场所制作实践不可或缺的一部分。在本文中，根据在冠状病毒（Covid-19）大流行的头几个月在珀斯和墨尔本（澳大利亚）进行的人种学分析，我们将探讨如何重新校正这种关系，以应对“在家”限制。我们首先简要介绍我们的方法和解释方法-借鉴后现象学，这是一个有用的框架，可用于了解家庭中的移动-身体-位置关系和数字场所。其次，我们考虑移动媒体如何在家庭环境中“定位”。第三，通过分析参与者的叙述，由于屏幕时间和在家时间的快速增加，我们讨论了数字亲密关系在移动媒体和身体之间的脱节。在整篇文章中，我们认为，移动媒体在家庭中的使用已完全陷入隐私，场所营造和家庭空间不断变化的边界中。我们质疑移动媒体的场所制作功能，特定于移动媒体实践的紧密的身体与技术之间的关系以及“居家”之后如何通过物理距离和隔离来进行修改。由于屏幕时间和在家时间的快速增加，我们讨论了数字亲密关系在移动媒体和身体之间的脱节。在整篇文章中，我们认为，移动媒体在家庭中的使用已完全陷入隐私，场所营造和家庭空间不断变化的边界中。我们质疑移动媒体的场所制作功能，特定于移动媒体实践的紧密的身体与技术之间的关系以及“居家”之后如何通过物理距离和隔离来进行修改。