Abdollah Karimzadeh

Assistant Professor, Department of English Language & Literature, University of Tehran, Tehran: Iran

[ 1 ] - A Psychoanalytic Reading of Cyberspace: Problematizing the Digitalization of Oedipus Complex and the Dialectic of Subjectivity and Castration in the Cyberspace

In the present paper, a translational model to psychoanalyze the cyberspace is presented with the argument that cyberspace is a translated version of human unconscious that projects both our unfulfilled desires and suppressed anxieties. This Freudian-based line of argument is followed by Lacanian (1950s)and Zizekian (2004) psychoanalysis to problematize the digitalization of Oedipus complex and...

[ 2 ] - Socio-Demographic Related Difference in Digital Literacy among Undergraduate Students of State universities in Iran

The concept of literacy has undergone a conceptual leap due to the constant growth of technology and the introduction of digital tools. Often-cited as an important component of modern literacy, digital literacy has received significant attention. Since the role of socio-demographic characteristics like gender, place of residence, access to digital tools, fields of study, level of university and...

[ 3 ] - Social Anomia against the Backdrop of Misinformation/ Disinformation: A Cognitive Approach to the Multivalent Data in Cyberspace

The present study is an attempt to problematize the multivalent data in the cyberspace through the lenses of Wittgenstein’s analytic philosophy of language. Adopting this linguistic philosophy approach is aimed at exploring the dichotomous question of whether cyberspace is a possibility for social power or it is a contributory cause of communicative discontinuity and henceforth a possibility fo...

[ 4 ] - واکاوی پالیمسست‌های فرهنگی در آثار نویسندگان ایرانی دور از وطن:موردپژوهی فریدون اسفندیاری و فیروزه جزایری دوما

این مقاله با تکیه بر استعاره‌ی پالیمسست کنش داستان‌نویسی نویسندگان ایرانی دور از وطن را واکاوی ‌می‌کند و نشان می‌دهد که آنان فرایند ترجمه‌شدن خود به سوژه‌‌های دیاسپورایی را چگونه روایت می‌کنند و از این رهگذر چگونه پالیمسست‌های فرهنگی و ادبیات لهجه‌دار تولید می‌کنند. برای این منظور، متون پالیمسستی دو نویسنده‌ی ایرانی مقیم آمریکا را که به ترتیب به دیاسپورای ایرانی پیش از انقلاب و پس از انقلاب تعل...

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