I'm confused; is he a real professor, in the sense that he actually knows core sociology literature well, or is he a grifter sociologist professor who has found

I'm confused; is he a real professor, in the sense that he actually knows core sociology literature well, or is he a grifter sociologist professor who has found a niche and some publicity for himself by writing relatively light academic-sounding fluff focusing on the intersection of drone technology and modern issues of concern (slavery, trafficking, the panopticon)?