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Dr James Muldoon

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EBS - Management and Marketing
Dr James Muldoon

Teaching and supervision

Current teaching responsibilities

  • Social Economy (BE414)

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI): Global Ethics and Innovation (BE497)

Previous supervision

Dougie Booth
Dougie Booth
Thesis title: The Green Divergence: A Critical Political Economy of the Energy Transition in China and the United States
Degree subject: Government
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 14/11/2025

Publications

Journal articles (20)

Muldoon, J., Cant, C., Graham, M. and Ustek, F., (2025). The Poverty of Ethical AI: Impact Sourcing and AI Supply Chains. AI and Society: the journal of human-centered systems and machine intelligence. 40 (2), 529-543

Muldoon, J., Sedacca, N. and Apostolidis, P., (2025). Matchmakers: placement agencies and digital platforms in the UK childcare market. Work in the Global Economy. 5 (1), 6-26

Muldoon, J., (2025). Data-owning democracy or digital socialism?. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy. 28 (4), 1-22

Wu, T., Muldoon, J. and Xia, B., (2025). Global data empires: Analysing artificial intelligence data annotation in China and the USA. Big Data and Society. 12 (2)

Muldoon, J., Apostolidis, P., Hatzisavvidou, S., Machin, A. and Tønder, L., (2025). New materialism and the politics of climate action: a critical dialogue. Contemporary Political Theory. 24 (2), 274-297

Moore, P., Petrucci, C. and Muldoon, J., (2025). AI regulation in the EU and the world of work: critiquing inevitability, for resistance. Global Political Economy. 20 (2), 201-214

Muldoon, J., Valdivia, A. and Badger, A., (2025). The politics of artificial intelligence supply chains. AI and Society

Forestal, J., Bickford, S., Curato, N., Hayward, C., Bruzzone, V., Gastil, J. and Muldoon, J., (2025). Thinking democracy in a digital age. Contemporary Political Theory. 24 (3), 517-544

Alenichev, A., Shaffer, JD., Kingori, P., Grietens, KP., Muldoon, J. and Rocher, L., (2025). ‘We can see a savage’: a case study of the colonial gaze in generative AI algorithms. AI & SOCIETY

Muldoon, J. and Parke, JJ., (2025). Cruel companionship: How AI companions exploit loneliness and commodify intimacy. New Media & Society

Muldoon, J., Cant, C., Wu, B. and Graham, M., (2024). A Typology of AI Data Work. Big Data and Society. 11 (1)

Fischli, R. and Muldoon, J., (2024). Empowering Digital Democracy. Perspectives on Politics. 22 (3), 819-835

Bonhomme, M. and Muldoon, J., (2024). Racism and Food-Delivery Platforms: Shaping Migrants’ Work Experiences and Future Expectations in the United Kingdom and Chile. Ethnic and Racial Studies. 48 (10), 1897-1920

Muldoon, J. and Sun, P., (2024). The Global Gig Economy: How Transport Platform Companies Adapt to Regulatory Challenges - A Comparative Analysis of Six Countries. Industrial Law Journal. 53 (3), 481-504

Muldoon, J. and Booth, D., (2024). Socialist democracy: Rosa Luxemburg’s challenge to democratic theory. Philosophy and Social Criticism. 50 (2), 369-390

Muldoon, J. and Wu, B., (2023). Artificial Intelligence in the Colonial Matrix of Power. Philosophy and Technology. 36 (4)

Muldoon, J. and Apostolidis, P., (2023). ‘Neither work nor leisure’: Motivations of microworkers in the United Kingdom on three digital platforms. New Media and Society. 27 (2), 1-23

Muldoon, J., (2022). A socialist republican theory of freedom and government. European Journal of Political Theory. 21 (1), 47-67

Muldoon, J. and Raekstad, P., (2022). Algorithmic domination in the gig economy. European Journal of Political Theory. 22 (4), 587-607

Muldoon, J. and Rye, D., (2020). Conceptualising party-driven movements. The British Journal of Politics and International Relations. 22 (3), 485-504

Books (2)

Muldoon, J., (2026). Love Machines How Artificial Intelligence Is Transforming Our Relationships. Faber & Faber. 0571399274. 9780571399277

Muldoon, J., Graham, M. and Cant, C., (2024). Feeding the Machine The Hidden Human Labour Powering AI. Canongate Books. 1837261822. 9781837261826

Grants and funding

2023

The Climate Crisis and Democratic Reform

Arts and Humanities Research Council

Platforms without Borders: Examining Migrant Labour on Global On-Demand Labour Platforms

Economic and Social Research Council

Contact

james.muldoon@essex.ac.uk

Location:

EBS.2.64A, Colchester Campus

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