Visual culture has displaced our traditional ceremony and ritual with television. In this generation we are moving towards a more visual culture. Technology like television has fostered countless antisocial behaviors in young, developing minds, leading to much apathy in our mainstream American culture. With a growing demand for technology, television viewing habits are starting to materialize as a problem in American society. This habit has a negative effect on our perceptions, our behaviors and the way we interact with each other. Our reality and social understanding have also been altered by visual images. How have we allowed television to replace our traditional culture? The technological components of visual culture are what we have used to determine the progress of our society. In today's society, technology is present in many aspects such as communication, production and marketing. There is no doubt that technology has helped and made our lives much easier by improving our daily activities and visual ability. It is used as a predominant tool for homework, but it has also given way to a cultural apathy in society. We live in a culture where we prefer to watch rather than participate. Technology not only changes our culture, but in a particular direction. Using Plato, Winn, and Buckley, I was able to understand the power of visual images in new aspects such as technology and imagery. Visual culture has changed over time and visual images have brought a new concept into our culture. In “What is Visual Culture,” Mirzoeff discusses the change brought about by visual culture: Visual culture does not depend on images but on this modern tendency to represent or visualize existence. This view makes the modern period radically different from......half of the paper......and Anthology. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin, 2007. 76-82. Print.• FOX. “Philadelphia Police Release Surveillance Video of Blind Man Beating.” Fox News. FOX News Network, October 9, 2013. Web. December 14, 2013.• Vinci, Marie. "The plug-in drug". 50 Essays: A Portable Anthology. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin, 2007. 438-451. Print.• Plato. "The Allegory of the Cave." 50 Essays: A Portable Anthology. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin, 2007. 292-299. Print.• Hopkins, Nancy M., and Anna K. Mullis. "Family perception of television viewing habits." Family Relations 34.2 (1985): 177-81. National Council on Family Relations. Network. 01 November 2013. .• Padilla-Walker, Laura M. "Characteristics of adolescent-related mother-child interactions? Positive values ​​and behaviors." Journal of Marriage and Family 69.3 (2007): 675-86. Press.