While exile refers to a glamorous return to the 'real' homeland, diaspora creates an alternative homeland, an imagined one.
Exile denies 'here' and mourns for 'there'.
Diaspora lessens the unbearable nostalgia by constructing a community based on the networks which link the dispersed. Exile emphasizes a centralized relationship with the spatial homeland. In diaspora, through the romantization of the 'promised land', emphasis is placed on a cobweb of relations amongst the scattered. In other words, diaspora is a deterritorialized World Wide Web. The Internet offers more convenient, more effective and cheaper ways of communication than any other medium.