sodcasting
playing music out loud on a mobile phone
TRANSLATION
sodcasting = lautes Musikhören über Handylautsprecher --- GOOGLE INDEX sodcasting: approximately 200,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
With mobile phones in many a teenager's pocket, the rise of SODCASTING has created a noisy problem for a lot of commuters.
(BBC News)
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SODCASTING: What Should Be Done About It?
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(BBC News)
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SODCASTING: What Should Be Done About It?
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Did you
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sodcasting
noun
- the act of playing music through the speaker on a mobile phone
sodcaster
noun
- someone who plays music through the speaker on a mobile phone
(The Urban Dictionary)
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Sodcasting is a play on another relatively new word - podcasting - a voluntary process of accessing and downloading audio programmes online. Sod is British slang for something or someone considered unpleasant or difficult, like noise in a public place.
The term is believed to have been first used by Pascale Wyse from the Guardian newspaper in his series Wyse Words, a list of words that do not exist but should. He stated that sodcasters were terrified of not being noticed, so they spray their audio around the place like a tomcat marking his territory.
Although this was meant tongue-in-cheek, Wyse's theory is supported by more "serious" research from Dr. Harry Witchel, author of a book on music and its effect on the brain and body. "I don't think sodcasting is intrinsically anti-social, what I would say is that it is a fascinating human phenomenon of marking social territory. With young people, usually loud music corresponds very strongly to owning the space they are in at the moment."
As mayor of London, Ken Livingstone called for the "absolute prohibition on playing music from a mobile system" as far back as in 2006. Young people can now have their zip cards - which allow them free travel in the capital - revoked for "anti-social behaviour," which includes playing loud music.
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"Sodcasting can be really annoying, especially when you are trying to read on the train."
noun
- the act of playing music through the speaker on a mobile phone
sodcaster
noun
- someone who plays music through the speaker on a mobile phone
(The Urban Dictionary)
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Sodcasting is a play on another relatively new word - podcasting - a voluntary process of accessing and downloading audio programmes online. Sod is British slang for something or someone considered unpleasant or difficult, like noise in a public place.
The term is believed to have been first used by Pascale Wyse from the Guardian newspaper in his series Wyse Words, a list of words that do not exist but should. He stated that sodcasters were terrified of not being noticed, so they spray their audio around the place like a tomcat marking his territory.
Although this was meant tongue-in-cheek, Wyse's theory is supported by more "serious" research from Dr. Harry Witchel, author of a book on music and its effect on the brain and body. "I don't think sodcasting is intrinsically anti-social, what I would say is that it is a fascinating human phenomenon of marking social territory. With young people, usually loud music corresponds very strongly to owning the space they are in at the moment."
As mayor of London, Ken Livingstone called for the "absolute prohibition on playing music from a mobile system" as far back as in 2006. Young people can now have their zip cards - which allow them free travel in the capital - revoked for "anti-social behaviour," which includes playing loud music.
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"Sodcasting can be really annoying, especially when you are trying to read on the train."
