Hidden persuaders – How you are influenced through the media. Dutch 2011 (3rd ed.), 2006, 2001, Verborgen verleiders – hoe de media je sturen (Den Haag: Boom Lemma, 167 p. w. cartoons by Sidney Harris, lit., register. ISBN 978 90 5931 691 1). An introduction to media psychology.
Separate chapters deal with gossip and celebrity (with the case of Lady Di), soaps and entertainment (with the case of the first Big Brother reality soap series), advertising and marketing (with the case of their new Internet incarnations), science and information (with the case of the supposed Y2K computer bug), news and information (with the case of the Clinton-Lewinsky news soap), propaganda and war (with the case of the misinformation campaigns preceding the first and second Iraq wars).
The book was developed in conjunction with a series of documentaries with the same name, made for Teleac educational television, broadcast on Dutch public television in 2000, and repeated several times. Item w. Itw. about VD health information: https://www.youtube.com/
TV Interview about celebrity with Filemon Wesselink, BNN 2015, Dutch: https://www.youtube.com/