Dylan Mulvin

Dr Dylan Mulvin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), where he also serves as Programme Director for the MSc Media and Communications. His research focuses on the intersecting histories of media, technology, and culture, emphasizing how technological artifacts encode assumptions about human perception, emotion, and behavior. He is the author of Proxies: The Cultural Work of Standing In (MIT Press, 2021), which examines how proxies shape societal standards, and is currently writing a monograph titled Technologies of Rage: Anger, Art, and Media.

Key research areas include media history, infrastructure studies, science and technology studies, disability studies, and 20th-century cultural history. His work explores how technological standards reflect cultural biases, particularly around whiteness, able-bodiedness, and purity. He has published in journals such as Catalyst, Feminist Media Histories, and IEEE Annals of the History of Computing.

Recent projects include studies on the Y2K crisis’s legal implications, the role of proxies in technological design, and the intersection of HIV/AIDS activism with media accessibility. He has been featured in blogs like the Impact of Social Sciences and the LSE Review of Books.