WaveHills is a global open-access publishing platform committed to fostering the free exchange of ideas and research across disciplines. We believe that knowledge should be accessible to everyone—without barriers, paywalls, or restrictions. Our mission is to empower researchers, educators, and innovators by providing a transparent, ethical, and inclusive space for publishing scholarly work. At WaveHills, we publish high-quality peer-reviewed journals that uphold rigorous academic standards and embrace emerging fields of inquiry. Our editorial vision promotes interdisciplinary dialogue, digital scholarship, and equitable access to knowledge for all.

Journals

  • Critical Digital Humanities

    Critical Digital Humanities is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to examining the digital world through critical, cultural, ethical, and socio-political lenses. The journal explores how digital technologies shape—and are shaped by power, identity, knowledge systems, and global inequalities. Positioned at the intersection of humanities scholarship and digital innovation, the journal invites work that interrogates digital infrastructures, data cultures, algorithmic systems, digital labor, platform politics, and emerging technocultural practices.

    The journal is committed to expanding the field of digital humanities by foregrounding critique, theory, and reflexive methodologies. It encourages contributions that challenge techno-solutionism, expose colonial and extractive logics of the digital, reimagine digital futures, and amplify historically marginalized voices. Critical Digital Humanities also supports dialogues that link digital practices with broader humanities concerns, including ethics, justice, environment, archives, memory, language, embodiment, and affect.

    We welcome research articles, theoretical interventions, methodological essays, speculative pieces, and multimodal scholarship. The journal values feminist, decolonial, posthumanist, environmental, queer, disability, and Indigenous approaches, as well as experimental formats that push the boundaries of academic publishing. By fostering global and interdisciplinary conversations, Critical Digital Humanities aims to serve as a platform for scholars, practitioners, artists, and activists who are rethinking what it means to study and critically live with the digital in the 21st century.

  • Internet Linguistics

    Internet Linguistics is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to advancing the study of language, communication, and meaning-making in digitally networked environments. The journal provides a critical platform for examining how the internet its platforms, protocols, cultures, and infrastructures reshapes linguistic practices, communicative norms, semiotic production, and the evolution of human and posthuman language systems.

    Positioned at the intersection of linguistics, digital humanities, media studies, cultural studies, and communication research, Internet Linguistics publishes cutting-edge scholarship on topics such as online discourse, platformed interaction, virality, memetic communication, algorithmic mediation, digital multilingualism, AI-driven language practices, and emergent forms of multimodal expression. The journal welcomes both empirical and theoretical contributions that interrogate how digital ecologies transform syntax, semantics, pragmatics, rhetoric, narrative, and the socio-political conditions of communication.

    Committed to global and inclusive perspectives, Internet Linguistics highlights diverse methodological approaches from corpus linguistics, ethnography, and computational analysis to critical theory, postcolonial frameworks, and new materialist perspectives. By foregrounding the dynamic interplay between language and technology, the journal aims to illuminate the evolving contours of digital communication and to establish internet linguistics as a rigorous and essential field of contemporary scholarship. Internet Linguistics serves as a leading venue for researchers, educators, and practitioners seeking to understand and critically interpret how language lives, mutates, circulates, and acquires power in the age of networks, platforms, and algorithms.

     

  • Internet Waste Studies

    Internet Waste Studies is a pioneering, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the critical examination of waste, excess, by-products, and residues generated by digital cultures, infrastructures, and economies. As the first journal to consolidate scholarship on the ecological, cultural, material, and epistemic dimensions of digital waste, it foregrounds the often-overlooked detritus of the internet ranging from data debris, obsolete devices, and platform pollution to memetic noise, attention economies, and the socio-environmental afterlives of online activity.

    Situated at the intersection of digital humanities, media archaeology, STS, environmental humanities, critical infrastructure studies, and platform studies, Internet Waste Studies investigates how waste is produced, circulated, hidden, valued, and contested within digital systems. The journal embraces interdisciplinary approaches that illuminate the entanglements between digital excess and broader structures of power, including capitalism, coloniality, surveillance, extraction, and global inequities. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: data decay, algorithmic inefficiency, e-waste ecologies, toxic technocultures, meme garbage and virality, platform moderation overflow, digital noise, abandoned online spaces, the environmental impact of AI and cloud infrastructures, and the aesthetics and politics of digital refuse. The journal encourages empirical, theoretical, speculative, creative, and multimodal forms of scholarship. Internet Waste Studies aims to establish waste as a central analytic for understanding the internet’s cultural and material operations. By exposing the hidden costs, residues, and consequences of digital life, the journal provides an essential venue for researchers, practitioners, artists, and policymakers working to critically rethink sustainability, value, and futurity in an age defined by exponential production and accumulation of digital waste.