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Media won’t have such a strong influence. It won’t be in the hands of a small few. Maybe if enough youth start showing what they like, then MTV won’t have such a strong influence… airing what we shoot instead of what mainstream producers or whatever they think that we like.”  \n—Victor, Youthscapes participant  \nIn these words, Victor,1 an African-American senior atone of the lowest-performing high schools in California, made a strong case for young people becoming active participants in the ongoing struggle to counter negative perceptions of urban youth. Understanding that a power struggle is necessary to counterbalance media images of young people—and particularly of minority youth—Victor joined Youthscapes, a media  \nproduction apprenticeship program. Victor was frustrated that his sense of self was not solely in his own hands but also packaged and consumed by external audiences. Just as Bakhtin believed that the self is“socially and historically construed, yet creative”(quoted in Holland, Lachicotte, Skinner, & Cain, 1998, p. 34), the participants of Youthscapes also imaginatively fashioned their selves using their knowledge of how historical, political, and social complexities complicated their ideas of personhood. In Victor’s case, spending four years of his adolescent life devoted to exploring urban youth identity through  \nLINDA CHARMARAMAN, Ph. D., is a postdoctoral fellow supported by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development at the Wellesley Centers for Women. She is also a visiting assistant professor at Wellesley College. Her research interests center on bridging societal gaps, ranging from media literacy to racial and ethnic identity to positive urban youth development. While attending the University of California, Berkeley, she worked for over 12 years with various afterschool urban youth programs in the San Francisco Bay Area as a teacher, tutor, evaluator, and mentor. She is currently researching Boston-area youth media programs for best practices in this emerging field.  \nthe process of media production often meant con- Bronfenbrenner (1989) pointed out that the perceptions fronting issues of racism, prejudice, and general public of adults provide an important cultural frame of referdistrust—whether it was on the grounds of his school, ence for adolescent development. When adults control at a local park, on the streets of his neighborhood, or at the media, young people may very well absorb the negthe Sundance Film Festival, where he experienced being ative perceptions adults often have of them.  \noutside his immediate community for the very first time. In addition to perpetuating negative images, the  \nLocated in the San Francisco East Bay Area, Youth- media often keep members of minority groups relatively scapes, a year-round afterschool program, offered urban invisible. This invisibility, which signals an absence of youth the opportunity to use technology to reconstruct social power, can perpetuate the perception held by their identities, as described by Strasburger and Wilson many urban young people that they are not important (2002) . Youthscapes accomplished this identity con- members of society (Greenberg & Brand, 1994) . Instruction in at least two ways: 1) by prime-time television programs,  \nenatecourmaegindiag ictosnapptentrenticthatesdtiorecrectly- When adults control ethnic mare oftenindoeritiespicte,dwaosmvenict,ianmsdogrirlass counteracted stereotypes about the media, young having low social status; adoles  \nurban youth and 2) by creating people may very well cents of these groups may thus feel group cohesiveness within the absorb the negative alienated and invisible (Van Evra,  \napprentice program, which also perceptions adults often 2004) . In a nationwide poll, chilfacwitilihtatmeedmbmea","cbCaifTczuBSvIsd","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaifTczuBSvIsd","pdf",413506,11,"English","# Media participation and media influence\n## Youthscapes and reclaiming representation\n# Adult perceptions and adolescent development\n## Media as cultural framing\n# Powerlessness and overlooked youth in media\n## Nationwide poll findings and related studies","[{\"question\":\"How does the text argue that youth involvement in media can counter negative media portrayals?\",\"answer\":\"It argues that when more people—rather than a small group—control media, the range of truths in public perception increases. 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