Cultural Transcoding and Digital Empowerment: Multimodal Communication of Intangible Cultural Heritage Paper-cutting in Diplomatic Settings

Keyword

Cultural transcoding; intangible cultural heritage paper-cutting; multimodal communication; affordance; context reconstruction

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