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As a leading contemporary British scholar of critical communication, Christian Fuchs has long devoted himself to the study of human communication in the digital age from the perspective of academic tradition of Western Marxism, thus systematically proposing the critical theory of communication. Based on this, the paper aims to explore the basic clues of the formation of Fuchs' critical theory of communication, mainly by researching Fuchs' academic dialogues and debates with thinkers such as Marx and Engels, scholars of the Frankfurt School and Dallas W. Smythe through the method of intellectual history. In conclusion, it finds that from historical materialism and labor theory of value to critical theory and audience commodity, all of them have been critically interpreted and digitally combined by Fuchs, forming the historical foundation of his critical theory of communication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Digital information technology has made human beings move into a mixed space where virtuality and reality are integrated. Maps, that have always been used as the abstraction and interpretation of the real world and assist us to cognize the real world, are facing new challenges. Under the new digital and communication situations, maps need to incorporated digital virtual spaces and analyze the impacts brought by virtuality and reality, nihility and existence and the interpromotion of void and solid. Game maps are suitable carrier in this paper to analyze and discover the relations between the virtuality and the reality. Game map has seven elements including the time, the place, the personage, the object, the event, the phenomenon and the scenario to describe the world. This paper analyzes their virtual and real characteristics, explores the relationships and the interactions between virtual world construction and the reality, and discusses their feedback to the real world. This research can enrich the theoretical system of cartography and facilitate planning a smarter and more pleasant society for us. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]