The phrase "a passive consumer of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who passively accepts information or products without actively engaging or questioning them.
Example: "In today's digital age, many people have become a passive consumer of media, absorbing content without critical analysis."
Alternatives: "an uncritical recipient of" or "a non-engaged user of".
But does the smart city really empower the citizen to be any more than a passive consumer of services and generator of data, to be harvested and redeployed in the name of urban efficiency?
Mr. Rumsfeld, who is known as anything but a passive consumer of intelligence at the Pentagon, foreshadowed in the ballistic missile report his current working view that senior policy makers must "engage analysts, question their assumptions and methods, seek from them what they know, what they don't know and ask them their opinions".
A close reading leaves little room for doubt that vendors like Microsoft, IBM, Siemens, Cisco and Hitachi construct the resident of the smart city as someone without agency; merely a passive consumer of municipal services – at best, perhaps, a generator of data that can later be aggregated, mined for relevant inference, and acted upon.
"It's a curriculum in which the learner is completely absent, or just a passive consumer of information or knowledge," he said.
However, rather than being a passive consumer of education who "selects from what is on offer", in this model the student becomes "an 'active' user who 'shapes' service provision from below" (Hartley, 2008, p. 366).
Furthermore, under this paradigm, the patient becomes an integral part of the healthcare delivery ecosystem, taking an active role in the identification and modification of disease related risk factors, while also assuming responsibility for critical aspects of their ongoing care (moving from being a passive consumer of clinical care to an active member of the overall healthcare team).
Being able to alter the game transformed the player from a mere passive consumer of media into a producer in his own right, something that is much harder in most other kinds of media.
Gregory Bush — the man accused of shooting the two people in a Kroger's and saying, when confronted by a white man, "Whites don't kill whites" — was a more passive consumer of social media.
This essay draws upon Joyce's familiarity with the discourses of birth-control movements and turn-of-the-century advertising to argue that critics have too easily dismissed Gerty as an unthinking and passive consumer of the fashion, fiction, and fantasy offered by ladies' magazines.
We tend to see production or creation on the side of the professional artist; whereas the art-goer, or, for our purposes here, the collector, is the passive consumer of aesthetic experience.
