Chinese netizen’s nationalism protest actions have had impact on China’s diplomatic policies and provided explanations for western countries on “China Threat”. As a kind of community consciousness, nationalism has a close relationship with media communication. In this paper, “Netizen’s Online Social Consciousness” data from CGSS(Chines General Social Survey) was analyzed to explore the relationship between nationalism and media use behaviors of the netizen from the perspective of media use. It was found that nationalism is negatively correlated with netizen’s official media use frequencies, so we can conclude that official media are not the instruments the government used to advertise nationalism. Nationalists use unofficial media frequently and have a highly trust in them, which lead to the boom and evolution of nationalism in cyberspace. It was also found that nationalists pay more attention to political news and they seek political information frequently through the Internet, which means that they are not fools as westerner regarded as but “informed nationalists”. Nationalism and its complexity in the Internet era has not only challenged the stereotypes from domestic and foreign academic circles, but also proposed new challenges for official media to guide and relieve it.