Abstract: [Purpose/Significance] The network usage characteristic of "permanently online, permanently connected" not only brings users high efficiency and convenience, but also challenges the users' survival logic. More and more users have generated the willingness and demands for digital disconnection. Therefore, it is of great significance to clarify the concept of digital disconnection and sort out its research progress.[Design/Methodology] The article takes digital disconnection as the research object and combs through the related research progress at home and abroad in order to comprehensively reveal the research status and characteristics of digital disconnection.[Findings/Conclusion] The concept can be divided into four perspectives: digital inequality, digital capitalism, literacy, and empowerment. It also explores its relationship with related concepts such as technology non-use, media resistance, digital detox, digital minimalism, and social media fatigue. Four types of motivations and three practical dimensions of digital disconnection are summarized. Finally, we discuss the implications of digital disconnection to the infrastructure, institutional arrangements, platform construction, and professional ethics of library and information profession. [Originality/Value] This research comprehensively reviews the progress of digital disconnection, and provides references for information profession to adapt to the changes of the relationship between digital technology and human.

Keywords: Digital disconnection, Anti-connection, ICT over use, LIS（Library and Information Science）profession, Digital literacy