https://doi.org/10.1177/1940161219862988 The International Journal of Press/Politics 1–22 © The Author(s) 2019 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions DOI: 10.1177/1940161219862988 journals.sagepub.com/home/hij Research Article Digital Technologies and Selective Exposure: How Choice and Filter Bubbles Shape News Media Exposure Ana S. Cardenal 1,2 , Carlos Aguilar-Paredes 3 , Carol Galais 4 , and Mario Pérez-Montoro 3 Abstract This paper analyzes the role of different origins to news media in selective exposure. We rely on a unique web-tracking online dataset from Spain to identify points of access to news outlets and study the influence of direct navigation and news-referred platforms (i.e., from Facebook and Google) on selective exposure. We also explore cross-level interactions between origins to news and political interest and ideology. We find that direct navigation increases selective exposure while Google reduces it. We also find that the relationship between origins to news and selective exposure is strongly moderated by ideology, suggesting that search engines and social media are not content neutral. Our findings suggest a rather complex picture regarding selective exposure online. Keywords digital technologies, online selective exposure, media exposure, platforms, filter bubbles Exposure to news media is increasingly mediated by digital technologies. Today, online media is the preferred news source in most advanced democracies, above TV and well above printed media. Moreover, two-thirds (65 percent) of online media users prefer to 1 Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain 2 Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain 3 University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain 4 Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain Corresponding Author: Ana S. Cardenal, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Parc Mediterrani de la Tecnologia (edifici B3), Av. Carl Friedrich Gauss 5, Castelldefels, 08860 Barcelona, Spain. Email: acardenal@uoc.edu 862988HIJ XX X 10.1177/1940161219862988The International Journal of Press/PoliticsCardenal et al. research-article 2019