In this article, the modeling technique is developed using the principles of a controllable chain of particle decays for the scenario of propagation of an aggressive information effect causing a pulsed activity of network users. Present peculiarities of interpersonal information communication medium are considered as a special “digital world” with the formation of formal collective behavior rules. The effects of spontaneous pulsed phenomena of mass activity of digital communication participants and the sharp increase in the interest indicators, which is induced by an aggressive content have become regular events. The features that make it possible to employ the principles of physical analogies to analyze the transmission if emotional contagion and psychological excitation between different network sites, where processes are analogous to media with different abilities of neutron slowing down and absorption in a reactor. The groups that have experienced influence become unstable and emit pulses themselves in the network of their contacts like the radioactive isotope nuclei, albeit not at random, but via the created contacts. The wave of influence dissipates and changes the topological structure of stable social communications and produces new but not random communications. The conception of modeling of the explosive growth of tension in a network and emotional contagion effects is substantiated using the concepts of network chain reactions, in which the method for analyzing the traffic based on artificial intelligence are characterized by a regular function. In a virtual medium with a global transmission of a content that has induced a mass response, the terms like “network storm,” “information tsunami,” and “hype waves” are used since new wave effects have appeared in the network. The phenomena of short surges of mutual aggression in a network are studied in the context of emotional contagion. The spreading of this effect in the epoch of algorithms of formation of news feeds can be made controlled and targeted. In the specially induced processes of an extremely intense propagation of an information content causing a response in the communication network, the conditions for manipulation over the offline behavior of a group of susceptible users, which play the role of nuclei decaying in a neutron flow, are maintained. The technologies of network traffic monitoring and tracing make it possible to determine the form of a sharp intensification in the network activity. Examples of the artificially created agitative interest because of information leak technology are investigated. For a targeted promotion of the content and for raising its popularity indicators, coordinated chains of fake accounts are used, which changes the type of oscillations of network traffic. The scenarios of organization of information waves during fake leaks and the dynamics of spontaneous formation of naturally attenuating waves are considered. It is confirmed that the induced agitation and excitation appearing naturally in a communication network are developing processes differently with different regulations. The importance of accumulation of resistivity to emotion contagion in the network environment, which is analogous to the xenon poisoning of a reactor, is demonstrated. A method is proposed for modeling cognitive chain reactions in network structures by the predicative formation of hybrid equations with a logic choice of types and forms of alternating oscillatory regimes. This method provides a description of pulse transmission between network segments with different reactivities and resistivities as well as the chain reaction damping.
A. Yu. Perevaryukha (Wed,) studied this question.