Before revision:  In the present paper, we aim at filling this gap by , first, identifying the discursive communities that animate the political debate in the run up of the 2018 Italian Elections and, then, studying the semantic mechanisms that shape their internal Twitter discussions . We do so by monitoring, on a daily basis, the structural evolution of the corresponding semantic networks .
After revision:  In the present paper, we aim at filling this gap by , first, identifying the discursive communities that animate the political debate in the run up of the 2018 Italian Elections and, then, studying the semantic mechanisms that shape their internal discussions by monitoring, on a daily basis, the structural evolution of the corresponding semantic networks .