Time Warner Cable announced that it has released five essays on the future of digital communications, policy and technical perspectives based on its Research Program on Digital Communications.

In a release, the company noted that posted on the Research Program's website, the essays will also be published in Volume 63 of the Federal Communications Law Journal later this year. The Research Program was launched in February to increase understanding of the benefits and challenges facing the future of digital technologies in the home, office, classroom and community.

Fernando Laguarda, director of the program and VP for External Affairs and Policy Counselor at Time Warner Cable, said "We are very pleased with the essays and are hopeful they will promote further dialogue and debate about important issues facing industry and policymakers."

Included in the two volumes of essays are the following contributions:

-Dale N. Hatfield, executive director, Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology and Entrepeneurship, University of Colorado, "The Challenge of Increasing Broadband Capacity."

-John G. Palfrey, Jr., Henry N., Ess III professor of Law, Harvard Law School, "The Challenge of Developing Effective Public Policy on the Use of Social Media by Youth."

-Nicole Turner-Lee, VP and director, Media and Technology Institute, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, "The Challenge of Increasing Civic Engagement in the Digital Age."

-Scott J. Wallsten, VP for Research and Senior Fellow, Technology
Policy Institute, "The Future of Digital Communications Research and Policy."

-Christopher S. Yoo, professor of Law & Communciations, University of Pennsylvania Law School, "The Challenge of New Patterns in Internet Usage."

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