The Debut: Setting the Telecommission Studies—Archival and Research Methodology

If research begins with curiosity, it is important for the researcher to move from that state of curiosity to formulate a question that guides the process of investigating his/her research. After going through the stage of curiosity, followed by conducting a review of the relevant literature, I discovered that virtually no scholarly research had focused only on the work of the Telecommission Studies, its report Instant World, or it’s forty other specialized reports examining the practical limitations and possibilities of communication as a human right in Canadian communications public policy. Hence, my core mission is to explore the intellectual origins of the right to communicate concept in Canadian communications public policy through a socio-historical analysis of the Telecommission Studies during the period of its work: September 1969 to April 1971.