Digital hate has no disciplinary boundaries — and neither does DHR. The journal brings together qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods research on both explicit and implicit forms of harmful content, drawing on linguistics, media studies, computational social science, legal studies, history, social and political sciences, and related fields. DHR provides a dedicated venue for research that examines digital hate as a social, political, communicative, and institutional phenomenon — with real-world consequences for platform governance, legal frameworks, and democratic participation.

Research on digital hate has proliferated across disciplines, producing work of genuine quality and considerable social significance. Yet the field remains structurally fragmented: scholars analyzing the linguistic mechanisms of hate speech and scholars building systems to detect it may never encounter each other's findings — not from indifference, but because disciplinary venues keep them apart. DHR is founded on the conviction that digital hate studies is not merely a topic shared across disciplines. It is a complex phenomenon that can only be fully understood through interdisciplinary integration, as connections across fields surface patterns and dynamics that would otherwise remain obscured.