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Against the backdrop of a growing backlash on digital media, around their ‘addictiveness’, concentration of economic power and misfeasance in political processes, users make situated combinations of use and non-use, with different motivations and means. This proposal aims to conduct comparative research on disconnection from digital technologies, focusing on qualitative studies with individuals who disconnect, through interviews in their contexts. For such end, we seek to replicate in Portugal a two-part study conducted in Norway: (1) on participants in organized detox activities (‘no wifi’