Commissioned Papers
| Name | Affiliation | Paper Title |
| Phineas Baxandall | Harvard University | “Good Capital, Bad Capital: Dangers and Development in Digital Diasporas” |
| Karim H. Karim | Carleton University | “Diasporic Communication in the Contexts of International Conflict and Cooperation.” |
| Michel Laguerre | MIT/UC Berkeley | “Virtual Diasporas and National Security” |
| Vinay Lal | UCLA | “Terrorism, Virtual Diasporas, and the Internet” |
| Hala Nassar | UC Berkeley | “Palestinian Diaspora narrating the lost Home“ |
| Robert Smith | Barnard College | “Migration, Assimilation and Diaspora: Positive Sum Solutions are Possible” |
| Shyam Tekwani | Nanyang Technological University | “The Tamil Virtual Diaspora” |
| Guobin Yang | University of Hawaii at Manoa | “Information Technology, Virtual Chinese Diaspora, And Transnational Public Sphere” |
| G. Pascal Zachary | UC Berkeley | “Globalization from Below: diasporic capitalism” |