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. Moreover, this relatively 'democratic' form of communication goes beyond political, religious, or ethnic borders. It is a social field for political, commercial, and socio-cultural interactions, stretching from Los Angeles to the Gulf states, from Japan to Scandinavian countries, from Sydney to Tehran.