About the Journal

Media and Communication Currents (MCC) is a bi-annual publication of the Faculty of Communication and Media Studies, University of Maiduguri Nigeria started in 2016, under the Department of Mass Communication, which is now expanded to a faculty with seven (7) departments. The Departments are: Departments of: Mass Communication, Journalism and Media Studies, Broadcasting, Film and Multimedia Studies, Development Communication Studies, Public Relations, as well as Advertising.

MCC Journal is devoted to intellectual thinking, based on historical, epistemological, methodological, theoretical, and technical/policy discourses and expositions on any aspect of media and communication.

Its areas of interest include studies and discussions that deepen or reconceptualize understanding in fields such as media and communication, popular culture and cinema, public relations, advertising, social communication, new media, language and media, communication and cultural policies, social and national identities, gender studies, sports and leisure, tourism, and heritage, among others.