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Alex Bal
Associate Professor
DepartmentRTA School of Media
EducationBAA, Ryerson, D.E.A, Paris XIII, PhD, Paris XIII
Areas of ExpertisePhotography, Decolonization, Art, Social Media, Children and Youth
Dr. Alexandra Bal is an associate professor in the RTA School of media, at Toronto Met University. Toronto, Canada. She has done funded research focused on the impact of social digital media on children and youths. Her current work focuses on the impact of western culture on the senses and how to create decolonized sensory and digital literacy that adapts education to youth’s digital ways of being and communicating while reintroducing the body in their understanding of being. Her digital photography focuses on creating nature vivante photographs, portraits that celebrate nature's sentience. She also participates in ecological art by decolonizing land. For the last 16 years, she has helped a forest regain its sovereignty over farmland.