Figure 7.
K-core decomposition of the semantic network for the non-filtered projection of the M5S discursive community on 19 February 2018. In the left plot, five k-shells are represented with different colors. In the right plot, an expanded view of the innermost k-shell—basically overlapping with the properly defined core identified by the bimodular surprise—is represented. Notice the presence of communities, found by running the Louvain algorithm. These emerge as a consequence of events as the electoral tour of Alessandro Di Battista (one of the M5S leaders), the presence of politicians in TV shows such as ‘Porta a Porta’, ‘Mezz’ora in piú’ and ‘Dalla vostra parte’. [Picture realized with Gephi software version 0.9.2. For more information about Gephi49: https://gephi.org/].