Max Loubser

Profile

Max Loubser is a doctoral student at the Oxford Internet Institute. His research interests include peer/collaborative knowledge production, future Internet architectures and network and information security.

He holds a BSc degree in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics from the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa and a Master's degree in Internetworking from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. He joined Oxford University in October 2005 as a Rhodes Scholar at Magdalen College.

His current work is related to the social structure of Wikipedia and similar collaborative projects.

Positions held at the OII

• DPhil Student, January 2007 - July 2010

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Research

Past projects

• Performance of distributed problem-solving networks

  August 2007 - February 2008

  Addressing the uncertainties that surround the coordination and performance of 'Distributed Problem Solving Networks' (DPSN), as well as the areas in which these new Internet-based forms offer advantages over more familiar modes of problem-solving.

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Thesis

Loubser, M. (forthcoming) Organisational Mechanisms in Peer Productions: The Case of Wikipedia. DPhil Thesis, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford.

Supervisor

• Professor Helen Margetts

  Director of Graduate Studies and Professor of Society and the Internet

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