Thomonique Moore

Thomonique’s research explores Black American technoculture and technoskepticism at the intersection of race, technology, and education. She investigates how digital platforms mediate Blackness, identity, and collective and cultural memory.

Thomonique is an educational technologist, learning designer, and doctoral student at the Annenberg School for Communication. Informed by her work in edtech and industry consulting, she is interested in how sociotechnical systems not only shape Black life but are shaped by it, and how Black users presently and historically navigate, adapt, refuse, and reimagine these systems in ways that unsettle dominant narratives of innovation and progress.

Her intellectual journey has been guided by an interest in Black technoculture, specifically how Black communities, including Black youth, past and present, engage with digital technologies as sites of memory, identity, resistance, and imagination. She asks questions about what it means to engage with sociotechnical systems not just as users, but as historical subjects. She is curious about what gets remembered, who gets to remember, and how digital technologies shape that process. She is also thinking about the tensions between technological acceptance, convenience, and refusal in this moment.

Before joining Annenberg, Thomonique was an educational technologist and learning designer at New York University, where she developed resources for teaching and learning with generative AI tools as part of the Provost’s AI working group. She brings her experience designing educational tools and curricula into her scholarship, asking how digital media can support learners to critically engage technologies in their meaning-making and identity development. She also spent four years as a digital consultant before pivoting to research and academia. Thomonique earned her B.B.A. in Information Systems from Howard University and her MA in Instructional Technology and Media from Teachers College at Columbia University.