{"podcast":{"title":"New Books in Communications","slug":"new-books-in-communications-408774","podcast_index_feed_id":408774,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/LIT1384621729","website_url":"https://newbooksnetwork.com/category/politics-society/communications/","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/1bb7b7f6-ef86-11e8-9a06-37c6ac8354be/image/6fbb3983a600dfcc86187dba32db8e5b.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"New Books Network","episode_count":1910,"summary":"This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field. Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: ⁠newbooksnetwork.com⁠ Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to get informative, engaging content straight to your inbox: ⁠https://newbooksnetwork.substack.com/⁠ Follow us on Instagram and Bluesky to learn about more our latest interviews: @newbooksnetwork Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/communications","last_synced_at":"2026-06-26T10:18:31.762101+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-communications-408774"},"episode":{"title":"Emily Doucet, \"Inventing Nadar: A History of Photographic Firsts\" (Duke UP, 2026)","slug":"emily-doucet-inventing-nadar-a-history-of-photographic-firsts-duke-up-2026","published_at":"2026-06-16T08:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-communications-408774/emily-doucet-inventing-nadar-a-history-of-photographic-firsts-duke-up-2026","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-communications-408774","url":"https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK5913848465.mp3","audio_url":"https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK5913848465.mp3","summary":"Félix Nadar took the first aerial photograph in 1858, so the story goes. The evidence, Emily Doucet notes, is mixed. In Inventing Nadar: A History of Photographic Firsts (Duke UP, 2026), Doucet analyzes the historical and material production of the nineteenth-century Parisian photographer’s famous and numerous photographic firsts. Focusing on these oft-labeled groundbreaking elements of his career, she deconstructs Nadar’s legacy as a prime protagonist in the history of photography by interrogating the media techniques used to construct his invention narratives. Doucet highlights this highly mediated process as one that canonized novel applications of photography as discrete techniques with single authors and inventors. Looking to this process of mediation through the institutions and individuals that shaped Nadar’s archives, Doucet unpacks assumptions of Nadar as a master of early photography and shows how the medium is enmeshed in larger histories of media, science, and technology. The result is both a new account of Nadar’s place in photographic history and a critical study of how stories of innovation take shape. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/communications","meta_description":"Félix Nadar took the first aerial photograph in 1858, so the story goes. The evidence, Emily Doucet notes, is mixed. In Inventing Nadar: A History of Phot…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4210,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/new-books-in-communications-408774/episodes/emily-doucet-inventing-nadar-a-history-of-photographic-firsts-duke-up-2026/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-communications-408774/emily-doucet-inventing-nadar-a-history-of-photographic-firsts-duke-up-2026.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}