Meaning of sodcasting | Babel Free

Definitions

Playing music on a mobile phone or other portable device in public, without regard for those around.

UK, neologism, slang, uncountable

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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