streisand effect

English - Turkish

Definition of streisand effect in English Turkish dictionary

İnternette bir bilginin sansürlenmesinin ters etki yaratarak ilgi çekmesi ve yayılması

English - English

Definition of streisand effect in English English dictionary

A phenomenon in which attempting to suppress an item of information attracts additional unwanted attention to it, thus furthering the spreading of the information

The "Streisand effect" is a term used to describe a phenomenon on the Internet where an attempt to censor or remove (in particular, by the means of cease-and-desist letters) a certain piece of information (for example, a photograph, file, or even a whole website) backfires and the information receives extensive publicity on the Internet, often widely mirrored, or distributed on file-sharing networks in a short period of time. Mike Masnick said he jokingly coined the term in January 2005, “to describe [this] increasingly common phenomenon.”

Hyphenation

Strei·sand ef·fect

Turkish pronunciation

strayzınd ıfekt

Pronunciation

/ˈstrīzənd əˈfekt/ /ˈstraɪzənd əˈfɛkt/

Etymology

() Coined in 2005, after a 2003 incident in which singer Barbra Streisand attempted to have a picture of her house removed from a public collection of 12,000 images documenting coastal erosion in California.