sodcasting

English

Pronunciation

• Audio (AU)

  (file)

Noun

sodcasting (uncountable)

1. (UK, slang, neologism) Playing music on a mobile phone or other portable device in public, without regard for those around.
   • 2011 June 11, Alex Hudson, “Why do people play music in public through a phone?”, in BBC News‎^[1]:

     With mobile phones in many a teenager's pocket, the rise of sodcasting - best described as playing music through a phone in public - has created a noisy problem for a lot of commuters.

   • 2011 December 9, Graeme Archer, “Empathy has fled the inner city, and it’s time for me to follow”, in The Telegraph‎^[2]:

     When times are good, a community can just about cope: lack of empathy leads to nothing worse than the rudeness of sodcasting on buses, the discharging of one’s nostrils on to a pavement, the casual dropping of a takeaway food container into the doorway of someone else’s flat.

   • 2014, Wayne Marshall, “Treble Culture”, in The Oxford Handbook of Mobile Music Studies, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 61:

     Take, for example, the following passage from Dan Hancox's blog post about sodcasting and note in particular how Hancox names a variety of technologies — from filesharing software limewire to mobile phones—and the way their traces seem to issue from the crunchy timbres and impoverished (bass) frequencies of the music itself, qualities which have come to periodize these recordings for the author and his cohorts.

Verb

sodcasting

1. present participle and gerund of sodcast