Using framing analysis, this paper studies the academic discourses on the use of information and communication technology among senior citizens in China, in order to interpret the discourseconstruction and the assumptions behind them. The fndings imply that the frame of existing studies tends to define “disconnect” as a problem and emphasize the positive impact of digital inclusion and the negative effect of disconnect. Since the frame attributes the problem to the seniors’ fear of technology and their lack of new media literacy, it suggests families and the whole society to use social intervention strategies, like culture feedback, to drive senior citizens “run” into the digital. This paper proposes a cultural understanding of disconnect to investigate the webs of signifcance and to enrich the apprehension of senior citizens’ life stories. Although the structure of the opportunity to refuse to integrate is rapidly shrinking in the ubiquitous “culture of connectivity”, this paper argues that it is necessary to create a friendlier infrastructure environment as well as language environment to the elderly, Providing multiple choices in public life.