1. Leonardi, Laura, Sessa, Melissa, 2023. World Complexity and Global System: An intriguing debate. In SocietàmutamentoPolitica 4, 28: 5-10.
2. Sessa, Melissa, Marina, Ciampi, 2023. Pandemic and new perspectives on living: the role of the smart home. In Frontiers in Sociology. DOI: 10.3389/fsoc.2023.1243411
3. Senatore, Gianluca, Sessa, Melissa, 2023. Hard and soft smart cities: an integrated approach. In SocietàmutamentoPolitica 4, 28: 95-102
4. Sessa, Melissa, 2023. The smart society between semantic indefiniteness and efficientistic reductionism. In SocietàmutamentoPolitica 4, 28:87-94
5. Sessa, Melissa, 2022. Crisi della smart society? Bisogni, tecnologia e potere in Pendenza, M., Antonelli, F., Iannone, R., Ricotta, G. (a cura di). (2022). Riassemblare la società. Crisi, solidarietà e conflitti sociali: prospettive di teoria sociologica. Perugia: Morlacchi
6. Sessa, Melissa, 2022. The Processes and Theories of the Smart City. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
7. Gurashi, Romina, Iannuzzi, Ilaria, Sessa, Melissa. 2021. "White collars and organized crime. Sociological profiles and issues" in Financial crime, money laundering and asset recovery. Global trends, theoretical issues and case studies. Craiova: Editura Alma.
8. Gurashi, Romina, Iannuzzi, Ilaria, Sessa, Melissa. 2021. "La città di Roma e il tortuoso cammino verso la smartness. Uno sguardo sociologico sulle trasformazioni urbane". In L'Italia centrale e i paesaggi sociali dei territori urbani in trasformazione, edited by Uliano Conti. Milano-Udine: Mimesis.
9. Gurashi, Romina, Iannuzzi, llaria, Sessa, Melissa. 2021. "La sostenibilità sociale alla prova dello stato di emergenza. Quale futuro?". In Digital Transition and Green Sustainable Economy, edited by Cekani I., d'Ovidio F. D., Favia F, Iaquinta P., (2021). 4th UNICART International Conference "Digital Transition and Green Sustainable Economy" - Proceedings Book. University Sancti Cyrilli A.D. 1669, Valletta (Malta), 15-18 June. IARC-ETQA Publishers, Tirana-Bruxelles.
10. Iannuzzi, Ilaria, Sessa, Melissa. 2021. "Città, Territorio e smartness. Il caso di Roma". In Saperi, conoscenze ed esperienze in formazione, a cura di Suania Acampa, Giuseppe Gargiulo, Rosa Gatti, Rocco Mazza, Mirella Paolillo, 261-267. Padova: Libreria Universitaria.
11. Sessa, Melissa. 2021. "La smart society alla prova del Covid-19. Disuguaglianza nelle competenze e fiducia digitale". In Saperi, conoscenze ed esperienze in formazione, a cura di Suania Acampa, Giuseppe Gargiulo, Rosa Gatti, Rocco Mazza, Mirella Paolillo, 215-22. Padova: Libreria Universitaria.
12. Sessa, Melissa. 2021. "La dimensione intima della smart city. La casa nell'aggregato urbano smart". Rivista Trimestrale di Scienza dell'Amministrazione, No. 1: 1-20.
13. Sessa, Melissa. 2021. "Spunti sull'attualità della riflessione di Max Weber: dalla democrazia all'e-democracy". In Max Weber: politica e società, edited by Fruncillo Domenico and Lorenzo Viviani, 275-295. Milano: FrancoAngeli.
14. Sessa, Melissa. 2020. "Smart Safe City. Criticità e prospettive sociali". Rivista Trimestrale di Scienza dell'Amministrazione, No. 3: 1-14.
15. Gurashi, Romina, Iannuzzi, Ilaria, and Sessa, Melissa. 2019. "From theory to empiricism: the challenge to the future of the Sapienza University at Solar Decathlon Middle East". In Smart society. A sociological perspective on smart living, a cura di Iannone Roberta, Gurashi Romina, Iannuzzi Ilaria, de Ganthuz Cubbe e Sessa Melissa, 85-97. Abingdon: Routledge.
16. Sessa, Melissa. 2019. "Home smart home. A sociology of living in the age of reflective materialism". In Smart society. A sociological perspective on smart living, a cura di Iannone Roberta, Gurashi Romina, Iannuzzi Ilaria, de Ganthuz Cubbe e Sessa Melissa, 68-84. Abingdon: Routledge.
17. Iannone Roberta, Gurashi Romina, Iannuzzi Ilaria, de Ganthuz Cubbe e Sessa Melissa. 2019. Smart society. A sociological perspective on smart living. Abingdon: Routledge.
18. Sessa, Melissa. 2019. "Smart city. A Sociological Perspective of Urban Vision". In Contemporary of Social Science Researches, a cura di Ruggiero Christian, Arslan Hasan e Gianturco Giovanna, 295-302. Bialystok: EBWN.
19. Iannone, Roberta, Gurashi, Romina, Iannuzzi, Ilaria, Sessa, Melissa. 2018. "The smart home in the mind and in the practice of digital natives. The case of "Sapienza" University". Storia del mondo. Periodico telematico di Storia e Scienze umane, No. 86: 1-47.
20. Sessa, Melissa. 2018. "The social dimension of smart home. How sustainability became part of the domestic environment". Storia del mondo. Periodico telematico di Storia e Scienze umane, No. 86: 1-10.

Melissa Sessa is a Ph.D in Political Science, curriculum in Theory of socio-cultural-political processes and international cooperation at Sapienza University of Rome. She has also a Ph.D for the Academic Class of Legal, Political, Economic and Social Sciences for the Sapienza School of Advanced Studies at Sapienza University of Rome. She is currently an Administrative Officer with the Italian National Research Council (CNR) at the Institute for Geo-Hydrological Hazard Protection (IRPI, www.irpi.cnr.it), in Perugia. She is, also, an Adjuct Professor in Sociology of Turism at the University of International Studies in Rome. She was involved mainly in: methodology of social research, theory of social and cultural processes, sociology of turism, sociology of risk. At present, she works in the conceptualization of the social risks of geo-hydrological hazard. Her main research topics include: (i) definition and theorization of the smart society and its processes, (ii) quantitative and qualitative research about the impact of smartness in the urban context, (iii) structuring questionnaire (iv) the new form of smart capitalism (v) social impact of geo-hydrological risks. She has participated in more than 30 Conferences. During her career she was involved in the organization of national and international scientific conferences such as: 11th WCSA Worldwide Conference (Brussels 2023) "The complexity of Sustainability", the Esa (European Sociological Association) Midterm Conference for the RN24 (Helsinki 2022), and the Political Sciences Faculty Conferences (Rome 2022 and 2023). She has authorship on 20 papers including articles and book chapters. She has, also, authorship on two books: Iannone Roberta, Gurashi Romina, Iannuzzi Ilaria, de Ganthuz Cubbe e Sessa Melissa. 2019. Smart society. A sociological perspective on smart living. Abingdon: Routledge; Sessa, Melissa, 2022. The Processes and Theories of the Smart City. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. She is the secretary of the Research Network 24 (Science and Technology) of the European Sociological Association. She is The Editorial Communication Manager of RTSA – Rivista Trimestrale di Scienza dell'Amministrazione (ANVUR has awarded the Rivista with a CLASS A rating, the highest ranking available).