The phrase "audience complacency" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where an audience is overly satisfied or indifferent, often leading to a lack of engagement or critical thinking.
Example: "The speaker noticed a troubling level of audience complacency during the presentation, as many attendees seemed disinterested and distracted."
Alternatives: "audience apathy" or "viewer indifference".
The line is typical, though, of the hortatory text, which seems to be trying to rally its audience into rebellion against complacency.
Advertisers, who once sold cars and shampoos by playing on mindless romantic dreams of moonlit tides and slow-motion flowing manes, now play crisply on their audience's complacency about its enlightened consumerism.
An agitated comedy about displacement and disorientation in the early media age, the ultimate aim of Newley's Gurney Slade was to resist the predictable and lacerate an audience's complacency.
Bedlam is all about jolting the audience out of complacency.
The "appalling messages" of Banners, says Gilbert and George, are not about violently attacking the viewer, as was the purpose of their Scapegoating series shown at White Cube last year, but about liberating audiences from liberal complacency.
"She gave a startling, most dramatic and effective interpretation which could jolt an audience out of its complacency anywhere," he marvelled.
A few days later, Meeropol returned to the club to hear Holiday sing his masterwork: "She gave a startling, most dramatic and effective interpretation of the song which could jolt the audience out of its complacency anywhere.
Ibsen switched to prose for its more immediate effects — and as a way of shocking audiences out of their complacency.
Lawrence Saha, a sociologist at Australian National University, says our complacency as an audience could be explained in a number of ways.
Sociologist at ANU, Lawrence Saha told VICE that our complacency as an audience could be explained in a number of ways.
