Dylan Mulvin presents to the DDI

Dr Dylan Mulvin is Assistant Professor in the Department of Media and Communications at LSE, where he also serves as Programme Director for the MSc Media and Communications.

Dr Mulvin is a historian of media and technology. Drawing on methods from media studies, Science and Technology Studies, gender studies, and disability studies, Dr Mulvin investigates how standards, infrastructures, and defaults encode and crystallise assumptions about human perception and behavior. In other words, he studies the ways people make the stuff that we take for granted. He is the author of Proxies: the Cultural Work of Standing In (published open access with MIT Press).

Prior to joining the Department, Dr Mulvin was a Postdoctoral Researcher at Microsoft Research New England, where he was a member of the Social Media Collective. He earned his MA and PhD in Communication Studies from McGill University.