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For nearly thirty years scholars have offered changing definitions of cyberwar. The continued ambiguity demonstrates that efforts at establishing definitional clarity have not been successful. As a result, there are many different and contradictory definitions, ranging from cyberwar's non-existence to cyberwar as an imminent threat. Ongoing definitional ambiguity makes interdisciplinary research and policy communications challenging in this diverse field. Instead of offering a new definition, this paper proposes that cyberwar can be understood through a fluid framework anchored in three themes and five variables identified in a broad interdisciplinary survey of literature. This framework's applicability is demonstrated by constructing an example definition of cyberwar utilising these themes and variables.

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The shadow of technological development has received significant attention. User tracking, emotional manipulation, disinformation, online radicalization, and restrictions on free speech have shattered the cyber-utopianism of the 1990s and early 2000s. Yet the solutions to address technology’s problems are framed as requiring more technology. This technological solutionism and its subsequent choices mask unconscious processes which give rise to new technologies. This essay is an attempt to interrogate the history of these choices by taking a depth psychological approach to the technological unconscious, beginning with the impact of writing on the psyche to the advent of computer screens. With technologies becoming more sophisticated and a primary way we interact with reality, it is vital to create a body of depth psychology literature on technology’s history and impacts.

The rights to assembly and association are fundamental rights guaranteed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. They are essential to the establishment and functioning of a democracy and ensure that individuals and groups can peacefully come together to pursue their common goals. These, and other human rights, are being challenged by the development and widespread deployment of artificial intelligence systems on the internet. Indeed, the development of artificial intelligence has been a cause for concern among human rights activists, scholars and practitioners.While much existing literature has examined how AI will impact privacy and freedom of expression, its impact on the rights to assembly and association has been neglected. To develop a more well-rounded body of literature about AI and human rights, this paper will examine the impacts of artificial intelligence on the rights to assembly and association. It will discuss AI's impact on two key areas: content display, whereby AI determines the content we see, and content moderation, where AI determines which content exists. The paper concludes with policy recommendations and the hope that these recommendations will serve as a starting point for a discussion on protecting these important rights in the age of artificial intelligence.