Clay Shirky is an American writer who teaches about the social and economic effects of internet technologies. He is known for coining the "Shirky principle" which states that institutions will try to preserve the problems they are designed to solve. One of Shirky's responses was about using social software to improve citizen engagement in coastal towns by having local policies related to tourism designed by locals. Shirky also believes that social media can help make governments more responsive because both citizens and governments think it can.

1. Clay Shirky
Clay is an American writer and teaches about the social and
economic effects of internet technologies in society.

2. "Institutions will try to preserve the problem to
which they are the solution,"
-‘Shirky principle’

3. Shirkys response to Morozovs view about the Libyan
government
"about using social software to improve citizen engagement in
coastal towns. The idea was that those cities would be more
economically successful if local policies related to the tourist
trade were designed by the locals themselves.”
"the best reason to believe that social media can aid citizens
in their struggle to make government more responsive is that
both citizens and governments believe that."

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5. Quotes
“ If I had to pick the critical technology for the 20th century,
the bit of social lubricant without which the wheels would've
come off the whole enterprise, I'd say it was the sitcom. [...]
For the first time, society forced onto an enormous number of
its citizens the requirement to manage something they had
never had to manage before--free time.”
“Here's something four-year-olds know: Media that's targeted
at you but doesn't include you may not be worth sitting still
for. Those are things that make me believe that this is a one-
way change. [...”