Media Literacy as a Violence-Prevention Strategy: A Pilot Evaluation

each of these domains has a system of self-regulation in place has made no significant impact on content or child-hood exposure to it. The only tangible effect that self-regulation has had is that of letting the entertainment industry off the hook by placing the burden of exposure on parents, many of whom have expressed dissatisfac-tion with the options available to them—the v-chip and the ratings systems (Gentile & Walsh, 2002). Considering the contentious debate that has evolved between enter-tainment industry apologists and parents and their academic allies, media literacy education seems to be one of the more hopeful solutions to the problem of media exposure to violence (Strasburger & Wilson, 2002). Despite the pervasiveness of exposure to violence i